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
Chorten (Tibetan: མཆོད་རྟེན་) is borne by more people in India than any other country/territory. It may also be found in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Chorten? popularity and diffusion
Chorten is the 2,979,664th most widespread surname throughout the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 169,477,812 people. It occurs mostly in Asia, where 100 percent of Chorten reside; 98 percent reside in South Asia and 74 percent reside in Indo-South Asia. Chorten is also the 449,413th most prevalent given name throughout the world, held by 373 people.
The surname is most commonly used in India, where it is borne by 32 people, or 1 in 23,970,793. In India it is mostly concentrated in: Arunachal Pradesh, where 100 percent reside. Not including India this last name occurs in 2 countries. It is also common in Bhutan, where 23 percent reside and Israel, where 2 percent reside.
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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- 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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