Das is a common surname in India

India

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 and Bangladesh

Bangladesh

Bangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...

, among adherents of Hinduism

Hinduism

Hinduism is the predominant and indigenous religious tradition of the Indian Subcontinent. Hinduism is known to its followers as , amongst many other expressions...

, Sikhism

Sikhism

Sikhism is a monotheistic religion founded during the 15th century in the Punjab region, by Guru Nanak Dev and continued to progress with ten successive Sikh Gurus . It is the fifth-largest organized religion in the world and one of the fastest-growing...

, Jainism

Jainism

Jainism is an Indian religion that prescribes a path of non-violence towards all living beings. Its philosophy and practice emphasize the necessity of self-effort to move the soul towards divine consciousness and liberation. Any soul that has conquered its own inner enemies and achieved the state...

, and Buddhism

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It is a vernacularized form of Dasa

Dasa

Dasa is a term used with the primary meaning 'enemy', especially relating to tribes identified as the enemies of the Indo-Aryan tribes in the Rigveda....

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In the Punjab region

Punjab region

The Punjab , also spelled Panjab |water]]s"), is a geographical region straddling the border between Pakistan and India which includes Punjab province in Pakistan and the states of the Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh and some northern parts of the National Capital Territory of Delhi...

 of India they generally belong to the Brahmin

Punjabi Brahmins

The Brahmins of the Punjab region are chiefly Saraswat Brahmins. They have a special association with the Punjab since they take their name from the river, Saraswati.-Sub-divisions:...

 caste. In the Assam Valley, Orissa

Orissa

Orissa , officially Odisha since Nov 2011, is a state of India, located on the east coast of India, by the Bay of Bengal. It is the modern name of the ancient nation of Kalinga, which was invaded by the Maurya Emperor Ashoka in 261 BC. The modern state of Orissa was established on 1 April...

, Bihar

Bihar

Bihar is a state in eastern India. It is the 12th largest state in terms of geographical size at and 3rd largest by population. Almost 58% of Biharis are below the age of 25, which is the highest proportion in India....

 and Bengal

Bengal

Bengal is a historical and geographical region in the northeast region of the Indian Subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal. Today, it is mainly divided between the sovereign land of People's Republic of Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal, although some regions of the previous...

 Das belongs to Kayastha

Kayastha

Kayastha or Kayasth or Kayeth is a caste or community of Hindus originating in India. Kayastha means "scribe" in Sanskrit, and has traditionally denoted members of the writer caste....

 caste and some Schedule Castes communities also uses the surname.

Das is also a surname (with a different meanining and etymology; Das means "badger" in Dutch, from PIE

Proto-Indo-European language

The Proto-Indo-European language is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Indo-European languages, spoken by the Proto-Indo-Europeans...

 *teks-) found amongst the Dutch of the Netherlands

Netherlands

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Again Das surname was designated to many higher caste Kayasths who used to worship Lord Krishna in the middle-ages.The first part of their name consisted one of the many names of Lord Krishna and a suffix Das was added to that.

The Das's

• Amar Das
  Guru Amar Das
  Guru Amar Das was the third of the Ten Gurus of Sikhism and was given the title of Sikh Guru on 26 March 1552.-His life:...
  
  , the third of the Ten Gurus of Sikhism caste- Khatri
• Amil Kumar Das
  Amil Kumar Das
  Amil Kumar Das was an Indian astronomer.During the International Geophysical Year, observatories in Madrid, India, and Manila were responsible for monitoring solar effects. The Kodaikanal Solar Observatory in South India performed this monitoring using their recently built solar tunnel telescope....
  
  
• Beni Madhab Das
  Beni Madhab Das
  Beni Madhab Das was an erudite Bengali scholar, a renowned teacher and a great patriot in British India. Subhas Chandra Bose was his student at Ravenshaw Collegiate School and he left an inedible mark in the mind of his young student, as acknowledged in his book Bharat Pathik...
  
  
• Bhagavan Das
  Bhagavan Das
  Bhagavan Das and also known by the name Anagorika Dharma Sara within the Buddhist community, is a Western yogi who lived for six years in India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. He is a singer and teacher.-Biography:Bhagavan Das is a bhakti yogi, a shakta tantra adept, and teacher of Nada Yoga...
  
  , Urdu poet
• Raja Bhagwant Das
  Raja Bhagwant Das
  Raja Bhagawant Das was a Kacchwaha ruler of Amber. One of his descendants Jai Singh II founded Jaipur.-Life:...
  
  , Rajasthani ruler of Amber caste- Rajput
• Bina Das
  Bina Das
  Bina Das was an Indian revolutionary and nationalist from Bengal.She was the daughter of the well knownd Brahmo teacher, Beni Madhab Das and a social worker Sarala Devi....
  
  
• Brojen Das
  Brojen Das
  Brojen Das was the first Asian to swim across the English Channel, and the first person to cross it four times.-Early life:...
  
  
• Chittaranjan Das
  Chittaranjan Das
  Chittaranjan Das was an eminent Bengali lawyer and a major figure in the Indian independence movement.-Personal life:...
  
  , a Bengal
  Bengal
  Bengal is a historical and geographical region in the northeast region of the Indian Subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal. Today, it is mainly divided between the sovereign land of People's Republic of Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal, although some regions of the previous...
  
  i lawyer
  Lawyer
  A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law; as an attorney, counsel or solicitor; a person who is practicing law." Law is the system of rules of conduct established by the sovereign government of a society to correct wrongs, maintain the stability of political...
  
   and a major figure in the Indian independence movement
  Indian independence movement
  The term Indian independence movement encompasses a wide area of political organisations, philosophies, and movements which had the common aim of ending first British East India Company rule, and then British imperial authority, in parts of South Asia...
  
  
• Dinesh Das
  Dinesh Das
  Dinesh Das was a Bengali poet. He created a stir with his poem Kaste . He immortalized Kolkata's Clive Street in one of his poems :Here, in a hundred snake-like veins,Streams of people come and go....
  
  , a Bengali poet residing in Calcutta
• Bhai Dyal Das, Sikh martyr
• Durga Mohan Das
  Durga Mohan Das
  Durgamohan Das was a Brahmo Samaj leader and a social reformer with notable contribution in the field of widow remarriage and women’s emancipation.- Early life :...
  
  
• Gardhab Das
  Gardhab Das
  Gardhab Das created by cartoonists brothers Neelabh and Jayanto Banerjee was a comic section run in the Indian youth magazine Target. The main character Gardhab Das had a donkey face and was always depicted wearing a kurta and pajamas. His main trait was his singing or lack of it. He was a...
  
  , fictional character
• Gobindachandra Das
  Gobindachandra Das
  Gobindachandra Das , was a Bengali poet and writer. He was born in Gazipur of Bengal province.- Life :Das was a very poor man and could not continue study. He was an employee of the Bhawal Estate. He had two daughters and a son. The younger one was named Bhaktimoyi who later was married to...
  
  
• Gurcharan Das
  Gurcharan Das
  Gurcharan Das , , is an Indian author, commentator and public intellectual. He is the author of The Difficulty of Being Good: On the subtle art of dharma which interrogates the epic, Mahabharata...
  
  , a Punjabi columnist for The Times of India
• Jibanananda Das
  Jibanananda Das
  Jibanananda Das was a noted Bengali poet. He is considered one of the precursors who introduced modernist poetry to Bengali Literature, at a period when it was influenced by Rabindranath Tagore's Romantic poetry....
  
  , a Bengali poet
• Kamala Das
  Kamala Das
  Kamala Suraiyya was a major Indian English poet and literateur and at the same time a leading Malayalam author from Kerala state, South India...
  
  
• Khagen Das
  Khagen Das
  Khagen Das is a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represents the Tripura West constituency of Tripura and is a member of the Communist Party of India political party.-External links:*...
  
  
• Krishna Das
  Krishna Das
  Krishna Das is a U.S. vocalist known for his performances of Indian devotional music called kirtan . With eight albums released since 1996, Das is perhaps the best known U.S...
  
  
• Bhai Mati Das
  Bhai Mati Das
  Bhai Mati Das Bhai Mati Das Bhai Mati Das (Punjabi: ਭਾਈ ਮਤੀ ਦਾਸ, is one of the greatest martyrs in Sikh history. He along with his younger brother Bhai Sati Das and Bhai Dyal Das, all disciples of the ninth Sikh Guru, Guru Tegh Bahadur, were executed along with him at the Kotwali(police-station)...
  
  , Sikh martyr caste- Saraswat Brahmin
• Guru Ram Das
  Guru Ram Das
  Guru Ram Das was the fourth of the Ten Gurus of Sikhism and was given the title of Sikh Guru on 30 August 1574.-Early life:Ram Das was born in Lahore, Punjab on 24 September 1534[1] to a Sodhi family of the Khatri clan. His father was Hari Das and his mother Anup Devi. His wife was Bibi Bhani,...
  
  , the fourth of the Sikh gurus
• Rana Bhagwan Das
  Rana Bhagwandas
  His Lordship Mr. Justice Retired Rana Bhagwandas , a highly respected name of the Pakistani judiciary was a senior judge and former acting chief justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan...
  
  , former Chief Justice of Pakistan; Sindhi caste- Rajput--
• Ranjan Das
  Ranjan Das
  Bikash Ranjan Das is a Bangladeshi cricketer who played in one Test in 2000....
  
  
• Bhai Sati Das
  Bhai Sati Das
  Bhai Sati Das along with his elder brother Bhai Mati Das is one of the greatest martyrs in Sikh history. Bhai Sati Das and his elder brother Bhai Mati Das were followers of ninth Sikh Guru, Guru Tegh Bahadur...
  
  , Sikh martyr
• Satish Ranjan Das
  Satish Ranjan Das
  Satish Ranjan Das was the Advocate-General of Bengal and later the Law Member of the Executive Council of the Viceroy; he was sometime treasurer of the Boy Scouts of Bengal and the Lodge of Good Fellowship, and a prominent member of the reformist Brahmo Samaj in Bengal...
  
  
• Seth Govind Das
  Seth Govind Das
  Seth Govind Das was a freedom fighter and a distinguished parliamentarian. He belonged to the famous Maheshwari merchant family of Raja Gokuldas of Jabalpur....
  
  
• Shomie Das
  Shomie Das
  Shomie Ranjan Das in an Indian educationist. An Alumnus of The Doon School, he has served as the Headmaster of The Doon School, Mayo College and Lawrence School, Sanawar . He had earlier taught in Gordonstoun School in the UK.-Career:...
  
  , schoolmaster
• Sumi Das
  Sumi Das
  Sumi Das is the former co-host of TechTV's Fresh Gear. On July 3, 2003, she left TechTV to join the cable news channel MSNBC as a reporter. While there, she reported from Modesto, California on the Scott Peterson trial....
  
  , reporter for MSNBC
  MSNBC
  MSNBC is a cable news channel based in the United States available in the US, Germany , South Africa, the Middle East and Canada...
  
   and CNN
  CNN
  Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
  
  
• Sudhi Ranjan Das
  Sudhi Ranjan Das
  Sudhi Ranjan Das was the Chief Justice of India from 1955 to 1955 and then again 1 December 1955 to 31 January 1959. He retired from the Supreme Court 30 September 1959.-Background and education:...
  
  
• Surya Das
  Surya Das
  Lama Surya Das is an American-born lama in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. He is a poet, chantmaster, spiritual activist and author of many popular works on Buddhism; a teacher and spokesperson for Buddhism in the West. He has long been involved in charitable relief projects in the Third World...
  
  
• Tahbit Das Elahi Chowdhury
• Vasundhara Das
  Vasundhara Das
  Vasundhara Das born 1977, is an Indian singer and actress. She has acted in Hindi, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam films. She is the co-founder of world music band Arya. As a playback singer, she is best remembered for singing "Shakalaka Baby" from the Tamil film Mudhalvan, which was also her debut...
  
  , Indian actress and singer caste- Iyanger Brahmin
• Veena Das
  Veena Das
  Veena Das is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at the Johns Hopkins University. She also serves on the Executive Board of the Institute of Socio-Economic Research on Development and Democracy in India. She studied at the Indraprastha College for Women and Delhi School of Economics at...
  
  , caste- scheduled caste
• Sarala Dasa
  Sarala Dasa
  Sarala Dasa was one of the great scholars of Oriya literature whose work formed a perennial source of information for succeeding generations....
  
  , Caste-Caste-Oriya Kayastha/Karana,14th century poet of Orissa
• Jagannatha Dash, Caste-Oriya/Utkal Brahmin,15 century Sankrit and Oriya poet
• Madhusudan Das
  Madhusudan Das
  Utkal Gourav Madhusudan Das was born on 28 April 1848 in a village called Satyabhamapur, 20 kilometres from Cuttack, Orissa. He was the first Graduate and Advocate of Orissa.-Family:...
  
  , caste-Oriya Kayastha/Karana (Later converted to Christian), Famous Oriya Lawyer and Indian nationalist of 19th century.
• Gopabandhu Dash, Caste-Oriya/Utkal Brahmin,Indian Freedom Fighter,Reformer,Journalist and educationist
• Nandita Das
  Nandita Das
  Nandita Das is an award-winning Indian film actress and director. As an actress, she is known for her performances in Fire , Earth , Bawandar , Kannathil Muthamittal and Aamaar Bhuvan . As a director, she is known for her directorial debut Firaaq , which has won a number of national and...
  
  , caste-Oriya kayastha/Karana,Indian actress
• Jatin Das, Caste-Oriya kayastha/Karana,Indian painter
• Shiv Sundar Das
  Shiv Sundar Das
  Shiv Sunder Das is an Indian cricketer. He is a right-handed opening batsman. In first class cricket, he plays for Orissa. Das was selected in 2000 for the first intake of the National Cricket Academy in Bangalore. He proceeded to make his Test debut later that year.Considered the answer to...
  
  , Caste-Oriya Kayastha/Karana,Indian Cricketer
• Manoj Das
  Manoj Das
  Manoj Das is an Indian award-winning author who writes in Oriya and English.Manoj Das, a profilic author,he is India's foremost short story writers. He writes both in Oriya and english and is a proffesor of English at the Sri Aurobindo International University, Pondicherry.Manoj Das was born in a...
  
  , Caste-Oriya Vaishnava/Kayastha/Karana,Renowned English and Oriya writer
• K. S. R. Das
  K. S. R. Das
  K. S. R. Das or Doss is an Indian film director.He was born on January 5, 1936. He worked for about 40 films in different positions. As a director Loguttu Perumallakeruka was his debut film, with Sobhan Babu and Rajasri playing the lead roles. He has made about 30 films with Telugu superstar...
  
  , famous Indian film director.

Prabir Das,stood 5th in Madhyamick,2006 West Bengal,after that his career not much of impact