Kulkarni Family History
Kulkarni Name Meaning
Indian (Maharashtra Karnataka): Brahmin name from Marathi kuḷkərṇi ‘village clerk’ (from Sanskrit kula ‘family community’ + karaṇa ‘writer’ or karṇī ‘helmsman’). The kulkarni was a village official under the patel (village headman); he kept the accounts of the cultivators for the government and also for public records. The office of kulkarni was hereditary.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022