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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Indian (northern states) : Hindu (Brahman) name, from Sanskrit tripạ̄thī ‘one that has studied the three Vedas’ (see Trivedi), from tri- ‘three’ + pạ̄tha ‘reading’, ‘studying’.

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