Nadkarni Family History
Nadkarni Name Meaning
Indian (Goa Karnataka): usually Brahmin name meaning ‘district accountant’ from Kannada nāḍu ‘province district’ + Sanskrit karaṇa ‘writer’ or karṇī ‘helmsman’. In former times it used to be the title of a hereditary official equivalent to Deshpande in other areas of India.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022