Chorten Surname
Approximately 43 people bear this surname
Chorten Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| India | 32 | 1:23,970,793 | 327,222 |
| Bhutan | 10 | 1:61,604 | 695 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 2 | 1:12,187,685 | 173,419 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 1:50,218,684 | 817,899 |
Chorten (373) may also be a first name.
Chorten Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chorten Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Chorten (Tibetan: མཆོད་རྟེན་) is borne by more people in India than any other country/territory. It can be found as:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Chorten? popularity and diffusion
It is the 2,979,664th most numerous last name on a global scale, held by approximately 1 in 169,477,812 people. The surname occurs mostly in Asia, where 100 percent of Chorten live; 98 percent live in South Asia and 74 percent live in Indo-South Asia. Chorten is also the 449,413th most commonly used first name worldwide, borne by 373 people.
It is most frequently occurring in India, where it is borne by 32 people, or 1 in 23,970,793. In India it is mostly found in: Arunachal Pradesh, where 100 percent live. Apart from India it occurs in 2 countries. It is also common in Bhutan, where 23 percent live and Israel, where 2 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Chorten Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Chorten in the Tibetan language | ||
| མཆོད་རྟེན་ | chörten | 66.97 |
| མཆོད་རྟེན། | chörten | 13.76 |
| ཆོས་རྟེན་ | chöten | 4.59 |
| ཆོས་བསྟན་ | chöten | 2.75 |
| མཆོད་བརྟེན་ | chöten | 2.75 |
| ཆོས་བརྟེན་ | chöten | 1.83 |
| ཆོས་བསྟན། | chöten | 0.92 |
| མཚོད་རྟེན་ | tsöten | 0.92 |
| མཆོོད་རྟེན་ | chöten | 0.92 |
| མཆོད་བརྟེན། | chöten | 0.92 |
| ཆོས་བརྟེན། | chöten | 0.92 |
| མཆོས་རྟེན་ | chöten | 0.92 |
| མཆོར་རྟེན་ | chorten | 0.92 |
| ཚེ་བརྟན་ | tséten | 0.92 |
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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 Chorten
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