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 *Many Nepalese use their ethnicity or caste name as their surname.<ref name="Nepalese">"Naming", in Nepalese Culture Culture Atlas, https://culturalatlas.sbs.com.au/nepalese-culture/nepalese-culture-naming, accessed 7 March 2021.</ref>
 *Pre-married girls use their father's surname but after marriage, they use their husband's surname.<ref name="quora">"how Do Nepalese Names Work?" in Quora, https://www.quora.com/How-do-Nepalese-names-work-1, accessed 7 March 2021.</ref>
+*Nepali surnames are divided into three origins: '''Indo-Aryan languages, Tibeto-Burman languages and indigenous origins.'''
+*Surnames of '''Khas''' community contains
+:*toponyms as Ghimire, Dahal, Pokharel, Sapkota from respective villages,
+:*occupational names as (Adhikari, Bhandari, Karki, Thapa).
+:*Many Khas surnames includes suffix as -wal, -al as in Katwal, Silwal, Dulal, Khanal, Khulal, Rijal.
+*'''Kshatriya''' titles such as Bista, Kunwar, Rana, Rawat, Rawal, Dhami, Shah, Thakuri, Chand, were taken as surnames by various Kshetri and Thakuris. Khatri Kshetris share surnames with mainstream Pahari Bahuns. Other popular Chhetri surnames include Basnyat, Bogati, Budhathoki, Khadka, Khandayat, Mahat, Raut.
+*Similarly, '''Brahmin''' surnames such as Acharya, Bhatta, Joshi, Pandit, Sharma, Upadhyay were taken by '''Pahari Bahuns.
+*'''Jaisi Bahuns''' bear distinct surnames as Kattel, Banstola, Jaisi, Padhya and share surnames with mainstream Bahuns.
+*Other '''Bahun''' surnames include Aryal, Bhattarai, Banskota, Chaulagain, Devkota, Dhakal, Gyawali, Koirala, Mainali, Pandey, Panta, Laudari Pandey, Paudel, Regmi, Subedi, Tiwari, Upreti, Lamsal, and Dhungel.
+*Many '''Indian immigrants into Pahari zone''' are assimilated under '''Khas''' peoples and they carried '''ancestral clan names''' as Marhatta, Rathaur, Chauhan.
+*'''Khas-Dalits''' surnames include Kami, Bishwakarma or B.K., Damai, Mijar, Dewal, Pariyar, Ranapaheli, Sarki.
+*'''Newar groups of multiethnic background bears both Indo-Aryan surnames''' (like Shrestha, Joshi, Pradhan) and indigenous surnames like Maharjan, Dangol.
+*'''Magars''' bear surnames derived from Khas peoples such as Baral, Budhathoki, Lamichhane, Thapa and indigenous origins as Dura, Gharti, Pun, Pulami.
+:Other Himalayan Mongoloid castes bears '''Tibeto-Burmese''' surnames like Gurung, Tamang, Thakali, Sherpa.
+:Various Kiranti ethnic group contains many '''Indo-Aryan''' surnames of Khas origin which were awarded by the government of Khas peoples. These surnames are Rai, Subba, Jimmi, Dewan depending upon job and position hold by them. *'''Terai''' community consists both Indo-Aryan and Indigenous origin surnames.
+:*Terai Brahmins bears surnames as Jha, Mishra, Pandit, Tiwari.
+:*Terai Rajput and other Kshatriya groups bears the surnames Chauhan, Singh, Rajput, Verma, Pal.
+*'''Marwari''' surnames like Agrawal, Baranwal, Jain, Khandelwal, Maheshwari, Tapadia are also common.
+*Nepalese Muslims bears '''Islamic surnames''' such as Ali, Ansari, Begum, Khan, Mohammad, Pathan. Other common Terai surnames are Yadav, Mahato, Kamat, Thakur, Dev, Chaudhary, Kayastha.<ref>"Surnames by country", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surnames_by_country, 8 March 2021.</ref>
 ==Given Names==
 *There are several varied naming conventions in Nepal. The names of children are generally announced by the elder most member of Nepalese households.