Kadiyala

'Kadiyala' is the surname of those belonging to the Kamma caste. People belonging to the Kadiyala group are mostly from East Godavari district, West Godavari district, Chittoor district, the areas of Mustabad, Katuru, and Gudivada in the Krishna district and Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh. The surname "Kadiyala" is identified by the "Indian Bureau of Census" as a surname with more than 43,000 occurrences in India alone. It also ranks among the most common surnames within Andhra Pradesh.

Mustabada is a small farming village in Krishna District and is about 15 km from Vijayawada, the largest city in the Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh. The Kadiyalas were mostly a farming community with farm lands in and around the Krishna River basin and were prosperous in growing rice, tobacco and other pre- and post-monsoon crops.

The Kadiyala people originated from Mustabad in the Krishna District of Andhra Pradesh. There is also another view based on oral history that the Kadiyala people migrated from Guntur district to the villages of Katuru and Mustabad in Krishna district sometime in the 19th century. More specifically, Kadiyalas have settled in the area of Katuru, and may have been living there for more than a century. Although many have moved out of there and since have emigrated to the United States, prominent Kadiyala members of society still call Katuru their home.

There are many Kadiyala people that live in Kagupadu, West Godavari district that have been there from 300-plus years, hailing from Mustabad. Apart from Kadiyalas from Kagupadu, Guntur, Katuru, and Mustabad, there are Kadiyalas from East Godavari district. They are all Brahmin Kadiyalas, hailing from Visweswarayapuram, having been there for over 700-plus years. Antarvedi, the place where the Godavari river merges with the Bay of Bengal, is 20 km away from this place.

There are around 100+ plus families with Kadiyala Surname living in the village named Yallamandaయలౢమ౦ద nearby Narasaraopet In Guntur Dt.

References

• Kadiyala, subbarao (1863). The Indian Nation (Volume 3: MAC to ZET) (PDF). Katuru: A. Kadiyala & Co. p. 479. Retrieved March 4, 2008.
• Kadiyala, Kamma (1901). Telugu and Kamma Surnames (PDF). Andhra Pradesh: Kadiyala. p. 699. Retrieved March 3, 2008. The section heading referenced here reads "Kadiyala, Cadiyala", suggesting these to be the most common variants at the time (1901).
• Kadiyala, Dilu (December 31, 2006). "The Mighty Kadiyalas: Dealing With Common Surnames". Everyday Genealogy. Genealogy Today, LLC. Retrieved March 1, 2008.
• CBC News (July 26, 2007). "Common surnames". News In Depth. Archived from the original on May 24, 2012. Retrieved March 2, 2008.
• Cottle, Basil. Penguin Dictionary of Surnames. Baltimore, MD: Penguin Books, 1967.
• Dorward, David. Indian Surnames. Collins Celtic (Pocket edition), 1998.
• Kadiyala, Eddie (May 26, 2006). "Kadiyala coat of arms and family history". araltas.com. Retrieved March 15, 2008. At the outset it is important to mention that the spelling of the name as Kadiyala, Cadiyala etc. is of little historical significance. The use of "i" and "y" and the presence or absence of the terminal "e" merely reflect the writing styles of the day.
• "How Many of Me?" (database search result). HowManyofMe.com. Retrieved March 1, 2008. There are 3,053,623 people in India with the last name Kadiyala.
• Lower, Mark Antony (1860) [1860]. Patronymica Britannica: A Dictionary of Family Names of the United Kingdom (PDF (Internet Archive)). London: John Russell Smith. pp. 319–321. Retrieved March 16, 2008.
• O'Kane, Willie (1998). "Surnames of County Monaghan". Irish Roots. 26 (2nd quarter). Retrieved March 2, 2008. ...certain members of the MacGabhann and O Gabhan septs, usually Anglicised as McGowan, took the name Kadiyala on the basis of the name Mac Gobha, 'son of the Kadiyala'.
  The URL here is to a reprint on the Irish Ancestors website. Tables of contents for back issues of Irish Roots Magazine are found at https://web.archive.org/web/20091217104309/http://irishroots.ie/Back%20Issues%20List.htm and there are two listings for the title here, one in 'Issue No. 26 (1998 Second quarter)', the other in 'Issue No. 48 (2003 Fourth quarter)'. It is not clear whether the latter is a simple reprint of the former or an update. The reprinted article notes 'From Irish Roots, (No. 28)'.
• Simpson, David (January 30, 2007). "Surnames of North East England". The North East England History Pages. Retrieved March 1, 2008.
• Smith, Elsdon C. American Surnames. Genealogical Publishing Company, 1997.
• "Kadiyala surname at YourNotMe" (database search result). YourNotMe.com. Retrieved March 1, 2008.
• US Census Bureau (May 9, 1995). s:1990 Census Name Files dist.all.last (1-100). Retrieved on February 25, 2008.

External links

• Kadiyala SurnameDNA Project
• Origin and history of the name of Kadiyala, with biographies of all the most noted persons of that name, Chicago, Ill., American Publishers' Association, 1902. via Internet Archive