Bhattacharyya

English

Etymology

Variant of Bhattacharya.

Proper noun

Bhattacharyya (plural Bhattacharyyas)

1. A surname from Bengali.

Derived terms

• Bhattacharyya distance

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Bhattacharyya is the 34878^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 647 individuals. Bhattacharyya is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (88.25%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Bhattacharyya”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 153.