List of all shivalli family names

320 thoughts on “List of all shivalli family names”

1. Hello, I am really glad to see such a beautiful website about taulava samaaja.

   I also wanted to mention that my family name isn’t mentioned above. Please add in “Beedu”. And secondly, the website is very beautifully designed, but in the tool bar above, English is wrongly typed as Englesh. A change is required out there.

   Thanks.

2. Dear All,
   This website is really very useful. Above family name collection is magnificent. I would like to add on to this information. Please let me know the mode of ECS donation is possible in Indian Rupees. Thank You,
   Raja.

3. I want to know the place and other details of the family with the name POTI which appears above. Can you please let me know.

   Thanks in advance and regards,

4. hi we can have a section where we can ask users to register across depending on their family names. For example i am Sittillaya and we can have a subgroup of this so as we can trace our relatives

   Thanks in advance

5. I had a glance of the shivalli family names published in your website. Thanks. Very useful and also came up well. I noticed, our family name, shivalli Brahmins, Tulu speaking – KUNIKULLAYA – predominantly from Kasaragod Taluk, formerly a part of Dakshina Kannada Dist. ( now in Kerala state) did not find a place in your list. May I request you to please include it in the list at your earliest.

   Further, family names of the following to be correctly spelt as :
   KADAMBALITHAYA
   PUNICHITHAYA
   Family name of YERKADITHAYA did not find a place in your list, which my be noted.

   This is my humble suggestion.

6. I am not sure of this surname but i heard “Okade” …please clarify it …

7. In List of all shivalli family names category “Yelachithaya” is missing. you can add this.

8. thanks.. I had a glance of the shivalli family names published in your website. In list “Joisa”(surname) is missing. whether joisa is only surname or it also comes under family name

9. Thank you for your information’s. I have added Kunikullaya, Yelachithaya.

   @Anil Kumar Bhat
   Thank you for your interest. Please go through the link
   https://shivallibrahmins.com/english/about-us/an-appeal-to-readers/
   We have published our SBI account number. Please let us know if you need more info.

10. I COUDNT FIND MY FAMILY NAME HERE COULD YOU PLEASE ADD IT IT IS CALLED KEMMAR THANK YOU IN ADVANCE

11. I love the work done in this website… But it would be even better if it is possible to create a family tree for each family name…

    Like great great great grandfather–>great great grandfather–>….–>father–>you…

    It can be designed where the viewers can update their family details in the page…

    But for that it would be better to create an user account first…

12. Dear All,
    Its a great website for knowing our culture and roots. My family name happen to be sittillaya and am interested in tracing the roots of our people with this faily name. How can I contact others with this family name.?
    Keep up the good work
    Anand

13. Hi Guys
    fantastic work done by u…
    i cant belive that shivalli community has 520 sub group
    i heard a surname called Pajatthaya ….. which doesnt find place here
    may be u can add the same.

    Thanks
    Vishu

14. Isn’t Rao a recognized family name?

15. I don’t think names like Rao, Bhat, Acharya, Tantri/ Thantr, iAsranna are the recognised family names.
    As an example Persons who does Pooja at Temples are re-surnamed as Asranna.

    Hope I am right.

    With Thanks & Regards

    Ganesha Mogeraya

16. hi thank u very much.see my full name is Y.H.SUBRAMANYAM RAo(YELLUR HALEPATALI SUBRAMANYAM RAO)IN THIS WHICH IS SUR NAME & WHICH IS FAMIY NAME.PLS CLARRIFY IT THANK U

17. add laxmishobhane hadu in your great site -thankyou

18. A very good site indeed giving details of Shivalli brahmin community. It was really amazing to such a large number of family names in the community. I would like to know from knowledgeable members whether Nekkar is the short from of family name Nekkantaraya.

19. In my opinion, Ayya is not a family name(open to corrections). The word is used as a mark of respect when addressing “Dhanigalu”(landowners). Thus Ayya got affixed to the names of persons at the end eg. Krishnayya, Raghunathayya, Narasayya etc. Later on, the family name was introduced like Nekkar – short form of Nekkantaraya with its origin in a hamlet called Perampalli, near Manipal in Udupi District. The full name of a person began with Perampalli and ended with Rao. For instance, Perampalli Nekkar so and so Rao. From the above it can be concluded that Rao is also not a family name. In all probability, Rao originated from Raya. Thus Ramaraya became Rama Rao and Venkatraya became Venkat Rao. The origin of Raya can be traced back to Vijayanagara King Krishnadevaraya.

20. congrats for starting this website.even my surname is not in the list its MARIYANNA

21. Dear Mr. Ranjith

    Thanks for doing good work. Hope many people joinind. I have obseved people asking for the family tree details. But it will be difficult unless concerned people taking interest and submitting. Like Mr. Sripathi B.S doing the Kedilaya family tree. I Also heard Some Baipaditaya also tried for that. Please also clarify the some family names similar in Koota and Shivalli. Like Adiga, Aithala etc. But have clarified Adiga (shivalli)
    because of the Devara Adidavarege Pooja maduvavaru (Clarified by Vidvan Punichitaya). We are Kekunnaya.

    Thanks and regards

    Adiga K N

22. can you add ‘kundanthaya’ as a surname. we have our village situated at kunjoor on the way to admar. i couldn’t find the above surname.

23. There is a request for adding Yelachithaya. But I feel this is same as Elchithaya which is already in the list. (pronouncing is same in both the cases). If anybody knows better please clarify this.

24. Can somebody let me know as to who is the ‘KULADEVATHA’, I heard is specific for Saralayas. I was asked for during a pooja and I didnt know.

25. Hi,

    Its a great effort.My sir name is Bairy.I think it is also comes under SHIVALLI FAMILY.Could you add this in the list.

    Regards,
    shrinidhi

26. Dear Mr. Ravikiran,
    Sri Vishnumoorthy of “Kodangala” ahead of Alevoor is “Kuladevatha” for Saralayas. It is not Moodu Alevooru Vishnumoorthy, but Kodangala, also known as “Puli Devasthana” probably has its origin in Sage “Pulinda.” This temple is the “Kuladevatha” of three Kulas i.e. Kadamballitthaya, Manjitthaya and Saralaya. Unfortunately I am not sure whether ALL Saralayas worship this as their Kuladevatha, but I have seen many Saralayas believing this to be their family deity. The Paddana of our panjurli daiva also has some references of this fact.
    By the by, I am Kadamballitthaya.

27. Dear Sir,

    Please inform us about the family tree of Aralithaya. As per my knowledge, it is a very small family situated at Kasaragod District. I want to know the origin of the surname also

28. It is avery good work.Our Kuladevathe Neelavara Mahishamardini

29. Namaskara,

    I am Ganesan and my gotharam is Vishwamithra gothram. My fathers’ name is Krishnan and has one elder brother and one younger sister. My grand fathers’ name is Vishnu and he was working as Revenue Inspector in Udupi, Murudeshwar and Sirsi. My grand mothers’ name is Kalyani. Both of them are no more. My grand father died around 1936-37.

    I want to know about the relatives on my grand fathers’ side (may be in Karnataka (or) in Kerala) in order to find out my “KULA THEVARU”. Since, I don’t Know the Kulathevaru, I am worshipping Vishnu/ Tirupati Venkatachalapathy Perumal as my Kulathevaru.

    Please let me know about my Kulathevaru and the place where it is situated.
    I hope you will help me in this matter.

    Expecting a positive response

    V.K.GANESAN

30. Hi,
    Its really good website, with lots of information which we do not know, and I especially got to know about the Surnames.
    Can you please add more information on pooja veedhana & hacharane and about few festivals celebrated by Shivalli brahmins.

    Thanks ,
    Murali M Achar.

31. Dear Mr. Ganesan,
    It is near impossible to know about your “Kuladevaru” from the details you have given. One option would be know your grand father’s surname (not the acquired surnames like Rao, Bhat etc, but one from the list above) and ask the people about “Kuldevata” of that family or show your gf’s horoscope to a learned jyothishi and learn the “Kuladevata”. If you keep searching like this, you may be fooled by some people also.

32. This is a very good effort made by you, to gather all informations about Shivalli Brahmins .
    Shivalli Brahmins originally rooted in different places of South Kanara. The speciality of Shivalli Brahmins is thier mother tongue – TULU. Shivalli brahmins are , if you go back to your family history , can find out that they are either Purothiths, Archaka’s of Temples, and Teachers ( Acharyas) in Gurukulas.
    Each Shivalli family has got their own Kuladevaru. Some have even their own Kula Devasthana. I belong to PARLATHAYA FAMILY and our root is near RamaKunja, Puttur Raluk. We have our Kuladevasthana , near Ramakunja Grama, a place called Kondappade. and our Kuladevaru – Sri Anantha Padmanabha. the temple is well known as KONDAPPADE ANANTHA PADMANABHA TEMPLE.
    Lot of research has been done in our PARLATHAYA FAMILY TREE AND ITS HISTORY by one of our family memebr SRI K. BALAKRISHNA ACHAR, a retired teacher who has won National Award for Best Teacher. We , Parlathayas , gathered together about 14 years back and formed an association whcih is now called as ‘PARLATHAYA PRATHISHTANA’ .

33. And we meet every year on May 1 st . this year our Sneha Samavesha will be held at Bhagamandala, Madikeri dist. on 2nd may 2009. ( due to election it will be held on 2 nd , instead of 1 st. May) Shri Anantha Bhat and sons, the Kshethra Purohith of Bhagamandala is hosting this Samavesha.
    The Parlathaya Prathishtana was formed with 2 objectives. One, to renovate our Kula Devasthana. This has been done on two phases, during the year 2002 and 2006. Further development is ongoing. Second, to gather all the Parlathayas scattered all over India and abroad. So far we have been able to collect details of more than 500 members ( including direct and connected members. ) We have published a directory – HELLO PARLATHAYA- containing address/telephone/e-mail details of our family members and its still getting updated.
    Regarding the Kula Namas given in this website, some names are repeated with different spellings as they are differently pronounced, but are one and the same. for eg. Elachithaya /Yelachithaya. Names like Adiga, Bhat, Rao, Achar, Tantri are not Kula Namas but they denote one’s profession.
    I wish all the best to the hosts of this Website.
    RAVI RAJ RAO

34. i am kedilaya i want to know about my family tree & our kuldevata

35. I am Harishkumar Madhyastha of Sankada kallu madhyastha family (Hungarcutta-picode 576218) of Udupi district, suposed to be origin of madhyastha family. In some cases we get madyastha as surname. Is it spell mistake or entirely and new class of madhyastha family.
    Hope one will give clarify this

36. Hi,

    I am also interested in knowing our Kuladevatha. We are the Madambadithaya basically of Sorake (Puttur taluk) origin. Regarding our family name I am not too sure if it is pronounced as Madambadithaya or Mudambadithaya or Moodambadithaya? Could somebody clarify on this? I use Madambadithaya in my name. Even in Madambadithaya I heard that there are of two gothras one is Vishvamitra and another one is Bhargava. We are of Vishvamitra gothra.

    I also request all the Shivalli brahmins to please use their family names. We should be proud to use our family names. If we do not make it now our younger generations will not be knowing their family names.
    I realized this and hence I use my family name in all the places wherever required. I was known as Sumanth Rao M in school records but these days I prefer to use Sumanth Madambadithaya (in email signatures, letters etc). May be our parents or grand parents did not want to use such long family names to their children’s name hence would have shortened it by just adding the initials (like M in my case for Madambadithaya). Hence would have used surnames like Rao, Bhat etc. It is time to change now and start using the family names.

    Thanks
    Sumanth Madambadithaya

37. For the first time I happened to visit this site and am truly impressed with the same. I too would be glad if someone could draw up the saralaya family tree. I am a saralaya by marriage and am keen to know more about the saralayas elsewhere. I am residing in mangalore
    Thanks
    Vasudha

38. Dear Sir

    Kindly tell me our “KULADEVARU” out gothra is “Bharadvaja”

    rgds
    Raghavendra
    9008871932
    bangalore

39. Hi
    Raghavendra achraya
    I think kuladevaru for bharadwaja gothra is Udupi Anatheswara since I am also Bahradwaja gothra fellow
    Madhyastha Harishkumar
    Japan

40. Dear Sir,

    You are doing a fantastic job . Me and my family is settled in Pune. We belong to Upadhyay family( Bhargava Gotra in Udupi). Since my husband’s family were settled in Kerala for a long time we lost contact with other members of this family. Our family tree is as follows

    Krishna Upadhya – My father-in-law
    Anantha Upadhya – Father of Father-in-law
    Shrinivas Upadhya- Grand Father of father -in-law
    Krishna Upadhya-Great Grand father of Father-in-law

    Please provide us further Contact details of this family if you have.

    Regards

    Shobana & Anand
    Pune

41. Please kindly add the surname ‘Badhya’

    –regards,
    Raviraja badhya kudure ,Yellur

42. At last we have something good work,

    prashanth udupa

43. Hello,

    Good work Keep It up
    I belong to Mattu Balappa Family…

    Thanks and Regards
    Kavitha Rao

44. Mr.Y.H.Subrhamanyam Rao:

    Hello,
    I am from halepatali family at yellur.udupi . We are Puthrayas! Halepatali is our original old house name at yellur. Should you require further details please contact me@ 0820-2522341.

    Regards.

    Y.H.Sudhakar Rao.

45. I was amazed to see this website today although I am a daily internet user. What about Rao, Bhat, Achar? Aren’t they family names? I also heard that Achar and Acharya have different meaning.
    Regards,
    Poornima Harish.

46. I Require one clarification about the Temples, that means Kodangala Mahavishnu temple, or any other temples grouped under Surname (family name) or on the basis of Gothra..? becoz my gothra is Angeerasa, for me Kodangala temple is kula devasthana. is it correct or not.. ? how i can get the correct informaton.? if anyone knows pls mail me. shrinikbh@gmail or shrinivasa@batelco.com.bh

47. Mr. Y.H Subramanyam Rao,

    Please note that your family name is” puthraya” and ” Halepatali ” is name acquiered by our ancestors profession@temple works in those days. Halepatali House still exists at Yellur. Please contact me & send me your E-mail adress.

    Regards.: Sudhakar rao.

48. I belong to Mattu Balappa Family. It is a good work done. But one thing I wan to know is Where is the Family name “Balappa” in the above mentioned list?

    Please do the needful

    S Ganesan

49. can you add irvathraya to the list? great compilation. you could also expand this to include a genealogy family tree like the genealogy sites have. People will realize how closely related we are to one another and where our roots are

50. Moodillaya & Moodithaya both are same….please dont split them to two. We have all the proof to say that. Moodillaya is the original term of Moodithaya. Please make correction.