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The origin of the term Nepal is an area of ongoing investigation. Multiple hypotheses have been put forward by modern scholars to varying level of support. It is generally accepted that Nepal and Newar—the latter refers to the ethnic group indigenous to the Kathmandu Valley—are different forms of the same word.
Karki (Devanagari: कार्की) is a Chhetri surname from Nepal and a Kumaoni Rajput clan in Uttarakhand. [2] [4] Karki was a government title in the medieval Khasa Kingdom. The tax collecting officers in Dara/Garkha had the title of Karki. [1] The sub-clans of Karki Chhetris are: [5] Lama Karki (Shreepali Karki) Mudula Karki; Sutar ...
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KC (or K.C, K.C.) is a surname of medieval origin anglicized as an abbreviation of Khatri Chhetri in Nepal. [1] [2] The surname Khatri Chhetri was historically legally labelled to the children of Brahmin fathers and Kshatriya mothers after the introduction of Muluki Ain (the Legal Code of Nepal) in 1854 by Jang Bahadur Rana of Nepal.
Nepal (Nepali: नेपाल) is a surname used by Hill Brahmin people of Nepal. The origin of people with surname Nepal is Nepa village of Dullu . [ 1 ] It is considered that the surname Naipal or Naipaul has been Anglicization of the surname Nepal.
Similarly, outside Nepal, for instance in Darjeeling and Sikkim, almost all the Newars used ‘Pradhān’, another high-caste Srēṣṭha surname, as their common name. [3] The Chathariyas of Nepal, therefore, see the status and purity of these Pradhan from Sikkim and Darjeeling with doubt as they do with the Shrestha of Nepal. [28]
Gurung (Nepali: गुरुङ) is a common surname among people of the Gurung Tamu ethnic group in Bhutan, Nepal and India, as well as among other groups who are not ethnically Gurung (e.g. by some families of the Bhotiya in Dolpa). [1] At the time of the 2011 Nepal census, 798,658 people (2.97% of the population of Nepal) identified as Gurung.
Paudel (Nepali: पौडेल, pouḍel) is a surname among the Brahmin/Bahun families in Nepal, alternative spellings of which include Poudel, Paudyal, and Poudyal. [1] They are of Atreya (आत्रेय) gotra and have three pravaras (त्रिप्रवर) which are (आत्रेय, अर्चनाना, श्यावश्व).