Last name origin & meaning: Indian (Bengal) and Bangladeshi: Hindu (Brahman) name, the first
element of which, Ban-, is a shortened form of the village name
Bandoghat. The final element -jee is derived from jhā
(greatly reduced form of Sanskrit upādhyāya ‘teacher’);
thus, Banerjee ‘teacher from the village of Bandoghat’. In
Bengali names formed with -jee, the initial element is believed
to indicate a village granted by Ballal Sen, a legendary ancient king
of Bengal, to the ancestor of the person bearing the surname. A
Sanskrit version of this name, Vandyopadhyaya, was coined
later, from the elements vandya ‘venerable’ +
upādhyāya ‘teacher’.
| 
Pregnancy
Save Name
E-mail
Print
