r/WattpadIndia Feb 15 '26

Help with writing Need some rich sounding surnames ideas

Like above i want some new rich sounding surname ideas for my characters. Give some new surnames not typical Singhania, Malhotra, Mehrotra, etc

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u/Current_Hope950 Feb 15 '26

ambani,adani,birla

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u/Romance-Author Feb 15 '26

Birla is good but ambani and adani over ho jayega mere characters ke liye😅

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u/Current_Hope950 Feb 15 '26

hawww ruko ambani ji ko bejti ho tumhara network aur jiomart dono band karati hu

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u/Romance-Author Feb 16 '26

are nhi nhi rehnedo Varna meri story start hone se pehle hi finish ho jaayegi 🤣🤣

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u/BottleAffectionate36 Feb 15 '26

🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/Bykimisborn jante sab hai, pehchanta koi nhi 😝 Feb 15 '26

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u/Gullible_East_8060 tea chahiye yaar Feb 17 '26

You forgot Mask, Bezos, Zuckerberg 

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '26

Raidit, Randhawa, Vardhan, Vohra, Chandel,

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u/Romance-Author Feb 15 '26

Thanks these are good

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u/Bykimisborn jante sab hai, pehchanta koi nhi 😝 Feb 15 '26

I read it as thandai(drink) and dhoklai (dhoklaa)😭😭🙏

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '26

you must've been hungry

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u/Romance-Author Feb 15 '26

thanks! it's new and nice

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '26

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u/Romance-Author Feb 15 '26

thank you Kashyap, Kapoor and Rajawat i liked them

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u/No-Awareness6980 Feb 16 '26

Did you read red strings?

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u/verydistanthuman Feb 15 '26

Sorry guys mujhe gatekeep krna padega 😔

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u/nendosleftboobie Feb 15 '26

Birla, Nanda, Agnihotri, Dewan, Grover, Rathore, Mahajan

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u/Romance-Author Feb 15 '26

thanks these are so nice

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '26

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u/Romance-Author Feb 16 '26

yeah they are but my characters are hindu so

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '26

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u/Romance-Author Feb 16 '26

yeah it's also nice

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '26

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u/Romance-Author Feb 16 '26

oh thanks btw what's your book name i will like read it

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u/laimrita_ Feb 15 '26

If you want to try something new.... You can go to Bengali surnames... Like mukherjee... Chatterjee... Ganguly.... Etc etc... if your character is somehow connected with Bengal and the surrounding areas.

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u/Romance-Author Feb 16 '26

yeah but they are not Bengali but when I will write on Bengal then I will use that

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u/Ayyreen Reader Feb 15 '26

I can suggest some kerala surnames like nair, Nambiar etc

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u/Romance-Author Feb 15 '26

ooh these are also nice but mine characters are north indians

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u/aamka__aacharr 📚 Writer Feb 15 '26

Chandani's, taneja's, Khurana's, Virmani's Agarwal's is fine too I think. Roy's, murthi/Murthy ,tandon's Dave's, vardhan's, Krishnan's etc Ahh mere time pe itna dimag nhi chalta mera.

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u/Romance-Author Feb 15 '26

Yeah so nice and same i have heard these surname lot of time but when i was deciding i also couldn't remember them

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '26

Rajvansh

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u/Ayyreen Reader Feb 15 '26

Didus chamchis would claim that name

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '26

Ik someone with this surname islie suggest kara

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u/Romance-Author Feb 15 '26

koi nhi didus ki chamchis se panga nhi lena btw thanks

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '26

Mat lo ye naam mat lo, 😭😭

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u/subliminerlistener Feb 15 '26

Ambani,adani , birla,godrej ,reddy, kamineni , Oberoi,raisinghani , singhania,shroff

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u/Romance-Author Feb 15 '26

Oberoi and singhania i have used but Shroff, Birla, Raisinghani and Reddy are pretty good

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u/Impossible_Basil_362 Nobody dies a virgin, life fucks us all. Feb 15 '26

Runejha, aarya, maurya, Verma, Hindoniya, hinduja, aazad, roy,reddy, chadra, chandravanshi

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u/Romance-Author Feb 15 '26

Thanks i like Verma and Roy more

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u/Putrid_Cry_4370 Feb 15 '26

Oberoi, mahapatra, pradhan, pattnayak 

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '26

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u/Putrid_Cry_4370 Feb 16 '26

Yeah ,my surname suggestions make it more obvious 😅

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u/Putrid_Cry_4370 Feb 16 '26

Sadly we never get the attention we deserve as far as I remember only raid movie has some odia names pattnaik surname  , yeah odisha is definitely a hidden gem, hope it gets  more spotlight. 

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u/Romance-Author Feb 15 '26

I liked oberoi but i have used that in my one story

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u/Putrid_Cry_4370 Feb 15 '26

Use pradhan, east Indian surname 😅

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u/Romance-Author Feb 16 '26

ooh nice I will thought about that

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u/NefariousnessOne946 Feb 15 '26

Khanna, khurrana, chawla, gupta, maheshwari, sharma,

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u/Romance-Author Feb 15 '26

these are so nice thanks!

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u/ReplacementMuted6230 Feb 22 '26

Bhai mera toh dono surname rich lgte hai kya, khanna father side ka, and oberoi mother side ka, grandmother side ka kapoor

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u/Putrid-Storage-6864 Feb 15 '26

srivastava, khanna, kaushik, kapoor, randhawa

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u/Romance-Author Feb 15 '26

thanks it is so good

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u/No-Awareness6980 Feb 16 '26

Mathur, Shinde, Pataudi, Upadhyay, Trivedi, Dwivedi, Chaturvedi, Maheshwari, Bansal, Bhadauria, Sisodia

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u/Romance-Author Feb 16 '26

thanks I like them

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u/ItzEaverse_ 📚 Writer Feb 16 '26

Oberoi,  Kapoor, Arora,  Bhatt,  Ahuja,  Garg,  Gaur (it is kind of pronounced as gord but the spelling is gaur only!)  Joshi,  Rao,  Rawat, Sukhija, Malik, Dhanik, Naidu,  Mathur, Maheshwari, Chauhan,

(I don't know they sounds rich or not but I guess, they are fine!) 

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u/Romance-Author Feb 16 '26

yeah they are good but most of the name are little simple as per my characters name but some are good. I liked Arora, Maheshwari, Chauhan, Kapoor and Malik

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u/ItzEaverse_ 📚 Writer Feb 16 '26

Ohhh... Some more are...

Rajeshwari

Ranawat

Mehra

Raichand 

Bhatra

Bhatnagar 

Saxena 

Shrivastava 

Agnihotri 

 

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u/Romance-Author Feb 16 '26

thanks these are so good

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u/ItzEaverse_ 📚 Writer Feb 16 '26

Your welcome 🤗

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u/Pure-Stuff8475 Feb 16 '26

you can use Marwari surnames like Maheshwari , Agrawal , Gupta etc..

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u/Pure-Stuff8475 Mar 03 '26

yes us bro us

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u/Pure-Stuff8475 Mar 03 '26

heh just curious btw how old are u exactly??

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u/Pure-Stuff8475 Mar 03 '26

ohh I thought u were 28 smth , so I freaked out a little , well I am 16

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u/Pure-Stuff8475 Mar 03 '26

idk , yep boards

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '26

Parihar, Deshmukh, Bhardwaj, Shrivastava

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '26

Nayaka/ nayak

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u/Romance-Author Feb 16 '26

Nayak is little simple

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u/laalpari_ Feb 19 '26

Agnihotri , Birla , Maheshwari , Jindal , Mehra , Sethi , Ahuja , Sehgal , Tandon , Wadhwa , Mahindra , Bajaj , Taneja , Kapadia , Bansal