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.
^ Iyer, L. K. A. (1965). The Mysore Tribes and Castes, Volume 4 . New Delhi: Mittal Publications. p. 27.
^ a b Whitworth, George Clifford (1885). An Anglo-Indian Dictionary: A Glossary of Indian Terms Used in English, and of Such English Or Other Non-Indian Terms as Have Obtained Special Meanings in India . London: K. Paul, Trench. p. 120.
^ Nanjundayya, H V, L K Ananthkrishna Iyer (1931). The Mysore Tribes and Castes, Volume 4 . Mysore: Mysore University. pp. 27, 28. {{cite book }}
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^ 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.