Some adopted the surnames of their villages such as Gill and Rai, originally Jatt surnames, or close derivatives such as Shergill and Kalirai. However, when very low caste sikhs migrated to countries such as the US, Canada and the UK, they thought of it as a chance to start a clean slate where people would not be able to identify their caste. Where did the Sikhs get their surnames from? Ramgarhias are a subgroup among Other Backward Classes and they too have their own gurdwaras in some parts of Punjab. Mazhabis, the numerically strongest among Scheduled Caste Sikhs, have their own gurdwaras as do the Ravidassia Sikhs, another Scheduled Caste. After the battle with Mughals some SAHOTAS came to Punjab and adopted Sikh religion. The Sikh religion arrived in the same period. His mother was a Rathore Rajput and father was a SAHOTA Jatt. one of the earliest jathedar to sri akal takhat (highest Sikh authority) belongs to this caste. In Punjab both Saini and Jatt are land owner farmers. Saini is a warrior caste, Jatt is not a caste its a farming or agricultural community.
Even though Singh is the most common last name, many other Sikh last names are also quite popular, like Kaur, Arora, Anand, Bajaj, etc.
Mostly male or female Sikh names are differentiated based on usage or popularity rather than any fixed naming convention. Since the Sikh religion opposes caste, Sikhs traditionally do not use their family name. The middle name is the religious name: boys and men are called Singh (or lion) girls and women are Kaur (or princess). The first letter of the first prayer is the initial of the name. Now distant from their landlords in Punjab, who were mostly Jat Sikhs, the Ramgarhia diaspora in the Brahmaputra Valley of Assam were able to enhance their social status even higher. Their inventiveness and skills at construction, repair and maintenance were of much use at, for example, the tea plantations in Assam. Indian (Panjab): Sikh name, from Sanskrit šara?na ‘refuge’, ‘sanctuary’, based on the name of a Jat tribe.
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