Chogay Surname
Approximately 116 people bear this surname
Chogay Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bhutan | 114 | 1:5,404 | 269 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 1 | 1:5,972,654 | 99,197 |
Chogay (149) may also be a first name.
Chogay Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chogay Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Chogay (Hindi: छोगया, Tibetan: ཆོས་རྒྱས།) is carried by more people in Bhutan than any other country or territory. It may also be rendered as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Chogay? popularity and diffusion
The surname Chogay is the 1,691,963rd most frequent last name on earth It is held by around 1 in 62,823,672 people. The last name occurs mostly in Asia, where 100 percent of Chogay are found; 99 percent are found in South Asia and 98 percent are found in Tibeto-South Asia. It is also the 754,880th most frequently used first name in the world, held by 149 people.
The surname Chogay is most widely held in Bhutan, where it is carried by 114 people, or 1 in 5,404. In Bhutan Chogay is most frequent in: Samdrup Jongkhar District, where 34 percent live, Trashigang District, where 33 percent live and Mongar District, where 14 percent live. Besides Bhutan this last name is found in 2 countries. It is also found in India, where 1 percent live and Kyrgyzstan, where 1 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Chogay Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Chogay in the Hindi language | ||
| छोगया | chogaya | - |
| Chogay in the Tibetan language | ||
| ཆོས་རྒྱས། | chögyé | 48.54 |
| ཆོས་རྒྱས་ | chögyé | 32.16 |
| ཆོས་རྒྱལ། | chögyal | 9.94 |
| ཆོས་རྒྱལ་ | chögyal | 7.02 |
| ཆོས་ཉིད། | chönyi | 0.58 |
| ཆོས་རྒྱལ་ལ། | chögyalla | 0.58 |
| ཆོསརྒྱས | chosgyé | 0.58 |
| ཆོས་རྒྱལ་། | chögyal | 0.58 |
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Chogay
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