Datta Family History
Datta Name Meaning
Indian (Assam West Bengal and Punjab) and Bangladeshi: from Sanskrit datta ‘given gift’. In Sanskrit literature this name is associated with the Vaishya caste. In Assam and West Bengal the Dattas belong to the Kayastha caste. In the Punjab it is the name of a clan in the Mohyal subgroup of Saraswat Brahmins having probably evolved from an ancestral personal name.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022