Banerjee Family History
Banerjee Name Meaning
Indian (West Bengal) and Bangladeshi: Brahmin name the first syllable of which Ban- is a shortened form of the village name Bandoghat. The final element -jee is an altered form of jhā a much shortened form of Sanskrit upādhyāya ‘teacher’. Thus Banerjee means ‘teacher from Bandoghat’. In Bengali names formed with -jee the first element usually denotes a village founded by Ballal(a) Sen(a) a legendary 12th-century king of Bengal. A Sanskritized form of this name is Bandyopadhyay . Vandyopadhyaya apparently a variant of this was coined quite recently as if from the elements vandya ‘venerable’ + upādhyāya ‘teacher’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022