According to Lauderdale and Kestenbaum (2000) Top 10 , top 20 and top 50 Indian names are as follow
Top 10 Indian names are
1. Singh
2. Shah
3. Khan
4. Patel
5. Ali
6. Desai
7. Mehta
8. Rao
9. Sharma
10. Gupta
Top 20 Indian names are
11. Ahmed
12. Parikh
13. Hussain
14. Joshi
15. Amin
16. Bhatt
17. Gandhi
18. Ram
19. Ahmad
20. Mathew
Top 30 Indian names are
21. Chacko
22. Dave
23. Varghese
24. Sheth
25. Jain
26. Lal
27. Mathai
28. Husain
29. Bhakta
30. John
31. Trivedi
32. Das
33. Pandya
34. Sandhu
35. Iyer
36. Siddiqui
37. Kumar
38. Parekh
39. Sidhu
40. Prasad
41. Vyas
42. Fernandes
43. Grewal
44. Qureshi
45. Chand
46. Dhillon
47. Ullah
48. Mistry
49. Nair
50. Hasan
These names are compiled by 2 researchers in year 2000. Current name distribution might be a little different.
