Every one has a name, a “Surname & Gotra”. Once the parents will decide name, it can be any name but as far as, Surname & Gotra are concerned they are already fixed. Surnames are generally the names of Villages, Trees, Animals, Flowers, Fruits, Things and also Professions. regarding Gotras there are several versions about their formation. Once feeding the cows and looking after them was main profession to the majority of the society. The community that looks after cows (Govulu) were named after the big head of the community. In this way Gotra has formed.

So far, we have collected approx. 7000 Surnames & Gotra’s as far as Reddy Community is concerned. According to the estimation there will be nearly 10000 Surnames and Gotra’s.

We are putting lot of efforts to collect them. We also request our viewers to help us by sending their Surname & Gotra to our Web Site.