Updated June 9, 2019
Family name origins & meanings
- Indian (Gujarat, Rajasthan, Panjab, and Bombay city) : Hindu (Bania,Vania, Brahman, Khatri), Jain, Parsi, and Sikh name meaning ‘chief’ inseveral modern Indian languages, from Sanskrit mahita‘praised’, ‘great’ (from mah- ‘to praise or magnify’). InGujarati it has come to mean ‘teacher’, ‘accountant’, probably becauseteachers and accountants were respectfully so addressed inGujarat. The Oswal and Porwal Banias and the Panjabi Khatris also haveclans called Mehta.
