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{{Infobox caste
| caste_name          = Malakar
| classification      =
| family_names        = Malakar
| population          =
| populated_states    = [[Bangladesh]], [[West Bengal]], [[Tripura]]
| languages           = [[Bengali language|Bengali]]
| religions           = [[Hinduism]]
}}
'''Malakar''' ({{langx|bn|মালাকার}}) is a [[Bengali Hindus|Bengali Hindu]] surname spread throughout [[West Bengal]] and [[Bangladesh]] and also in some parts of [[Assam]], [[Jharkhand]] and [[Tripura]]. Malakars are traditionally garlander by trade. They are one of the fourteen castes belonging to 'Nabasakh' group of [[Bengal]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Sanyal|first=Hitesranjan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ezzuAAAAIAAJ&q=gandhabanik|title=Social Mobility in Bengal|date=1981|publisher=Papyrus|pages=115|language=en}}</ref>
== Origin ==
Malakars lived around [[Dhaka]] and other smaller towns of [[Bengal]]. The origin of the word Malakar came from [[Sanskrit]]. It is a [[Sandhi]] of ''mala'' and ''akar'', which means a person who shapes ''mala'', i.e. a garlander.
== People  with the surname ==
* [[Bijoy Malakar]], Indian politician
* [[Bishnu Malakar]] (born 1959), Nepalese boxer
* [[Sanjaya Malakar]] (born 1989), American singer
* [[Shrabonti Malakar]] (born 1987), Indian actress
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