Given name & surname · also Bengali
Datta
“given, granted”
Datta is a surname from Bengali, ultimately from Sanskrit.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Datta goes back to Sanskrit दत्त, meaning “given, granted.”
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Where it comes from
Datta comes from Bengali, and ultimately from Sanskrit.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Bengali দত্ত, from Sanskrit दत्त (“given, granted”).
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Datta’s family of names
In English usage, Datta as a surname was borrowed from the Bengali form দত্ত.
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Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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