Jains in America (fwd)

[Allen Thrasher]

Members of Indology and Vyakaran may find this forwarded message
interesting, assuming onomastics is part of linguistics.


Allen W. Thrasher
Senior Reference Librarian
Southern Asia Section
Library of Congress
Washington, DC 20540-4814
tel. (202) 707-5600
fax  (202) 707-1724
email: athr at loc.gov


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Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 20:12:43 -0500
From: JainBhavan at aol.com
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Subject: Jains in America
Resent-Date: 22 Nov 1996 01:13:55 -0000
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Jai Jinendra,

As  you can see from the following, "Jain" is the twelfth most common last
name in USA.  Needless to say that "Shah" is the most common last name even
amongst the Jains.

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> The 1990 census recorded 815,447 Indians in the United States. The
 > mid-1995 census bureau estimate shows a 25 percent growth in the
 > Asian population. Recent immigration trends indicate that the Indian
 > population has grown 33 percent since 1990 to more than 1,080,000.
 >
 > Top 100 Indian Surnames in US: Probable "Clone" spellings in
 >parenthesis.
 >
 > Name           Percent	Rank
 >
 > Patel           12.16     1
 > Singh            7.05     2
 > Shah             4.40     3
 > Desai            1.53     4
 > Sharma           1.47     5
 > Kumar            1.44     6
 > Mehta            1.28     7
 > Gupta            1.25     8
 > Rao              0.89     9
 > Reddy            0.81    10
 > Parikh(5)        0.63    11
 > Jain             0.60    12
 > Prasad           0.58    13
 > Amin             0.46    14
 > Joshi            0.45    15
 > Das              0.44    16
 > Gandhi           0.42    17
 > Bhatia           0.39    18
 > Bhatt(2)         0.39    19
 > Varghese         0.36    20
 > Chaudhry(3)      0.35    21
 > Sandhu           0.34    22
 > Agarwal(1)       0.33    23
 > Iqbal            0.32    24
 > Srinivasan       0.31    25
 > Arora            0.31    26
 > Gill             0.31    27
 > Sinha            0.29    28
 > Chandra          0.29    29
 > Malhotra         0.29    30
 > Parekh(5)        0.29    31
 > Kaur             0.28    32
 > Trivedi          0.27    33
 > Ghosh            0.27    34
 > Qureshi          0.27    35
 > Verma(6)         0.27    36
 > Dhillon          0.26    37
 > Dave             0.25    38
 > Mathur           0.25    39
 > Doshi            0.24    40
 > Sidhu            0.24    41
 > Lal              0.23    42
 > Sethi            0.23    43
 > Pandya           0.23    44
 > Khanna           0.23    45
 > Bhakta           0.23    46
 > Subramanian      0.22    47
 > Kapoor           0.22    48
 > Agrawal(1)       0.21    49
 > Murthy           0.21    50
 > Anand            0.21    51
 > Iyer             0.21    52
 > Mistry           0.21    53
 > Vyas             0.21    54
 > Krishnan         0.21    55
 > Grewal           0.21    56
 > Nair             0.21    57
 > Menon            0.20    58
 > Naik             0.20    59
 > Kulkarni         0.20    60
 > Banerjee         0.20    61
 > Chawla           0.20    62
 > Modi             0.20    63
 > Srivastava       0.19    64
 > Shukla           0.19    65
 > Sen              0.19    66
 > Mukherjee        0.19    67
 > Dalal            0.19    68
 > Aggarwal(1)      0.18    69
 > Puri             0.17    70
 > Garg             0.17    71
 > Soni             0.17    72
 > Parmar           0.17    73
 > Mohan            0.17    74
 > Datta            0.17    75
 > Prakash          0.16    76
 > Ahuja            0.16    77
 > Mishra(4)        0.16    78
 > Raman            0.16    79
 > Kapadia          0.16    80
 > Chowdhury(3)     0.16    81
 > Varma(6)         0.15    82
 > Goel             0.15    83
 > Kurian           0.15    84
 > Kothari          0.15    85
 > Basu             0.15    86
 > Rana             0.15    87
 > Bhat(2)          0.15    88
 > Sood             0.15    89
 > Pillai           0.15    90
 > Misra(4)         0.15    91
 > Chopra           0.15    92
 > Mathai           0.14    93
 > Mitra            0.14    94
 > Patil            0.14    95
 > Ramachandran     0.14    96
 > Ansari           0.14    97
 > Thakkar          0.14    98
 > Mehra            0.14    99
 > Kohli            0.14   100

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