The 1990 census recorded 815,447 Indians in the United States. The mid-1995 census bureau estimate shows a 25 percent growth in the Asian population. Recent immigration trends indicate that the Indian population has grown 33 percent since 1990 to more than 1,080,000. Top 100 Indian Surnames in US: Probable "Clone" spellings in parenthesis. Name Percent Rank Patel 12.16 1 Singh 7.05 2 Shah 4.40 3 Desai 1.53 4 Sharma 1.47 5 Kumar 1.44 6 Mehta 1.28 7 Gupta 1.25 8 Rao 0.89 9 Parikh(5) 0.63 11 Jain 0.60 12 Prasad 0.58 13 Amin 0.46 14 Joshi 0.45 15 Das 0.44 16 Gandhi 0.42 17 Bhatia 0.39 18 Bhatt(2) 0.39 19 Varghese 0.36 20 Chaudhry(3) 0.35 21 Sandhu 0.34 22 Agarwal(1) 0.33 23 Iqbal 0.32 24 Srinivasan 0.31 25 Arora 0.31 26 Gill 0.31 27 Sinha 0.29 28 Chandra 0.29 29 Malhotra 0.29 30 Parekh(5) 0.29 31 Kaur 0.28 32 Trivedi 0.27 33 Ghosh 0.27 34 Qureshi 0.27 35 Verma(6) 0.27 36 Dhillon 0.26 37 Dave 0.25 38 Mathur 0.25 39 Doshi 0.24 40 Sidhu 0.24 41 Lal 0.23 42 Sethi 0.23 43 Pandya 0.23 44 Khanna 0.23 45 Bhakta 0..23 46 Subramanian 0.22 47 Kapoor 0.22 48 Agrawal(1) 0.21 49 Murthy 0.21 50 Anand 0.21 51 Iyer 0.21 52 Mistry 0.21 53 Vyas 0.21 54 Krishnan 0.21 55 Grewal 0.21 56 Nair 0.21 57 Menon 0.20 58 Naik 0.20 59 Kulkarni 0.20 60 Banerjee 0.20 61 Chawla 0.20 62 Modi 0.20 63 Srivastava 0.19 64 Shukla 0.19 65 Sen 0.19 66 Mukherjee 0.19 67 Dalal 0.19 68 Aggarwal(1) 0.18 69 Puri 0.17 70 Garg 0.17 71 Soni 0.17 72 Parmar 0.17 73 Mohan 0.17 74 Datta 0.17 75 Prakash 0.16 76 Ahuja 0.16 77 Mishra(4) 0.16 78 Raman 0.16 79 Kapadia 0.16 80 Chowdhury(3) 0.16 81 Varma(6) 0.15 82 Goel 0.15 83 Kurian 0.15 84 Kothari 0.15 85 Basu 0.15 86 Rana 0.15 87 Bhat(2) 0.15 88 Sood 0.15 89 Pillai 0.15 90 Misra(4) 0.15 91 Chopra 0.15 92 Mathai 0.14 93 Mitra 0.14 94 Patil 0.14 95 Ramachandran 0.14 96 Ansari 0.14 97 Thakkar 0.14 98 Mehra 0.14 99 Kohli 0.14 100 Contributors name withheld on request