Chhettri Surname
Approximately 1,711 people bear this surname
Chhettri Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bhutan | 1,088 | 1:566 | 83 |
| India | 596 | 1:1,287,022 | 50,676 |
| Qatar | 9 | 1:262,000 | 30,726 |
| Nepal | 8 | 1:3,560,120 | 10,569 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| Canada | 3 | 1:12,281,864 | 364,614 |
| Malaysia | 2 | 1:14,747,112 | 316,340 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
Chhettri Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chhettri Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Chhettri (Hindi: क्षेत्री, Marathi: छेत, Tibetan: ཆེད་ཏི་རི།) occurs in Bhutan more than any other country or territory. It can also occur as:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Chhettri? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 235,214th most frequently occurring family name at a global level, borne by approximately 1 in 4,259,232 people. The surname occurs mostly in Asia, where 100 percent of Chhettri are found; 99 percent are found in South Asia and 64 percent are found in Tibeto-South Asia.
Chhettri is most frequently held in Bhutan, where it is borne by 1,088 people, or 1 in 566. In Bhutan Chhettri is mostly found in: Chukha District, where 100 percent live and Pemagatshel District, where 0 percent live. Barring Bhutan this last name exists in 7 countries. It is also common in India, where 35 percent live and Qatar, where 1 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Chhettri Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Chhettri in the Marathi language | ||
| छेत | cheta | - |
| Chhettri in the Tibetan language | ||
| ཆེད་ཏི་རི། | chétiri | 98.27 |
| ཆིད་ཏི་རི། | chitiri | 0.43 |
| ཆེན་ཏི་རི། | chentiri | 0.43 |
| ཆེད་ཏི་རིི། | chétiri | 0.43 |
| ཆེ་ཏི་རི། | chétiri | 0.43 |
| Chhettri in the Hindi language | ||
| क्षेत्री | ksetri | 88.89 |
| छैत्री | chaitri | 11.11 |
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Chhettri
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