Hegde or Heggade Pergade is a common surname found primarily in the Kanara, Tulu Nadu and Konkan regions of India.[1][2][3][4][5] It is prevalent among various Hindu communities in these regions, including the Kuruba Gowda, Bunt, Saraswat Brahmins,[6] Kannada Jain, Havyaka Brahmin, and Vokkaliga[7][2] communities of Karnataka.
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- ^ Nanjundayya, H V, L K Ananthkrishna Iyer (1931). The Mysore Tribes and Castes, Volume 4. Mysore: Mysore University. pp. 27, 28.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ H. V., Nanjundayya (1906). The Ethnographic Survey of Mysore, I. Kuruba Caste. Bangalore: The Government Press. pp. 1, 2.
- ^ Singh, K. K. (1996). People of India, National Series Volume VIII, Communities, Segments, Synonyms, Surnames, and Titles. Oxford University Press, Anthropological Survey of India. p. 1499. ISBN 978-0-19-563357-3.
- ^ "Hegde Name Meaning & Hegde Family History at Ancestry.com®". www.ancestry.com. Retrieved 2020-07-16.
- ^ K. S. Singh (1998). India's Communities. Anthropological Survey of India Oxford University Press. p. 3677. ISBN 978-0-19-563354-2.
They are also known as Namdhari Gauda or Nadavaru. Heggade and Gowda are the titles , which they suffix to their names.