Cherian

Cherian/Cheriyan is a Syrian Christian surname of Semitic (Hebrew-Aramaic) origin, presumed to be a derivative of Zecharya (Zacharias or Zechariah) and a variant of Zacharias popular among the Christian community of Kerala, southern India. The final -n is the Malayalam third-person masculine singular suffix.

In India it is mostly found only as a given name although this trend is changing in the present generations, but in the United States and United Kingdom, Europe and Australia, and also Indian states other than Kerala, it is also used as a family name among expatriate families from Kerala. Provided by Wikipedia