 Chattopadhyay (compound of village name "" and "upādhyāya" denoting "priest, teacher" originally granted with the village named ) is the Sanskritized form of the local Prakrit word "chaturjye", anglicized to Chatterjee.English language spellings include Chatterjee, Chatterjea, Chatarji, Chatterji, Chaterjee, Chattopadhyay, and Chattopadhyaya., and potentially Chattoraj and Chattoraghab.Chatterjees are from the Kashyapa Gotra, indicating their presumed descent from the ancient sage.