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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Indian (Gujarat, Bombay city, Rajasthan) : Hindu (Bania, Vania) and Parsi name meaning ‘cloth merchant’ in Gujarati, from kapə̣d ‘cloth’ (Sanskrit karpạta) + the adjectival suffix -ya.

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