Chophel Surname

204,843rd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 2,027 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Bhutan
Highest density in:
Bhutan

Chophel Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Chophel Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Bhutan1,9191:32155
India451:17,045,897267,282
United States241:15,102,456529,929
Canada111:3,349,599180,238
France81:8,302,840321,660
Thailand51:14,127,669603,945
Nepal41:7,120,23914,461
Malaysia31:9,831,408269,765
Australia21:13,497,850222,987
England11:55,718,059489,080
Iceland11:380,09011,096
Netherlands11:16,887,176156,465
Spain11:46,752,036156,870
Switzerland11:8,212,915156,297
Taiwan11:23,444,74693,622

Chophel (260) may also be a first name.

Chophel Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Chophel Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Chophel (Tibetan: ཆོས་འཕེལ།) occurs in Bhutan more than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of Chophel click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Chophel? popularity and diffusion

Chophel is the 204,843rd most common surname worldwide. It is borne by around 1 in 3,595,237 people. The last name Chophel occurs mostly in Asia, where 98 percent of Chophel are found; 97 percent are found in South Asia and 95 percent are found in Tibeto-South Asia. Chophel is also the 552,051st most common forename internationally It is held by 260 people.

Chophel is most frequently used in Bhutan, where it is carried by 1,919 people, or 1 in 321. In Bhutan it is most numerous in: Trashigang District, where 15 percent reside, Thimphu District, where 14 percent reside and Lhuntse District, where 13 percent reside. Without taking into account Bhutan this last name occurs in 14 countries. It also occurs in India, where 2 percent reside and The United States, where 1 percent reside.

Chophel Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those holding the Chophel surname are 13.44% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than the national average, with 66.67% being registered with the political party.

The amount Chophel earn in different countries varies significantly. In United States they earn 8.7% less than the national average, earning $39,394 USD per year and in Canada they earn 37.27% less than the national average, earning $31,168 CAD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

Chophel Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Chophel in the Tibetan language
ཆོས་འཕེལ།chöpel95.26
ཆོས་འཕེལ་chöpel2.57
ཆོས་ཕེལ།chöpel0.56
ཆོས་འཔེལ།chöapel0.24
ཚོས་འཕེལ།tsöpel0.24
ཆོས་འཕལ།chöpal0.16
ཆོས་འཕེལ་།chöpel0.16
ཆོས་དཔལ།chöpal0.16
མཆོས་འཕེལ།chöpel0.08
ཆོལ་འཕེལ།cholpel0.08
ཆོས་འཕེལ་ལ།chöpella0.08
ཆཽས་འཕེལ།chaupel0.08
ཆཽས་འཕལ།chaupal0.08
ཆོས་ཕེལ་chöpel0.08
ཆོས་རྒྱལ།chögyal0.08
ཆོས་འཕིལ།chöpil0.08

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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
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  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Chophel
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