Dechen Surname
Approximately 2,660 people bear this surname
Dechen Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| India | 1,272 | 1:603,039 | 29,047 |
| Bhutan | 855 | 1:721 | 94 |
| Brazil | 298 | 1:718,370 | 26,318 |
| United States | 134 | 1:2,704,917 | 162,137 |
| France | 63 | 1:1,054,329 | 115,549 |
| Canada | 10 | 1:3,684,559 | 191,443 |
| Thailand | 4 | 1:17,659,586 | 685,799 |
| Malaysia | 4 | 1:7,373,556 | 230,001 |
| China | 3 | 1:455,773,855 | 21,925 |
| Nepal | 3 | 1:9,493,652 | 16,132 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| Germany | 2 | 1:40,252,730 | 481,636 |
| Russia | 2 | 1:72,061,528 | 727,117 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| Taiwan | 1 | 1:23,444,746 | 93,622 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1:580,542 | 15,155 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Chile | 1 | 1:17,616,474 | 93,597 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 8 | 1:6,277,336 | 262,771 |
The alternate forms: Déchen (1) are calculated separately.
Dechen (36,872) may also be a first name.
Dechen Demographics
Average Dechen Salary in
United States
$48,607 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Dechen Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Dechen Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Dechen (Arabic: ديشين, Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺩﺷﻦ, Hindi: देचेन, Russian: Дечен, Tibetan: བདེ་ཆེན་) occurs most in India. It may appear as: Déchen. Click here for further possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Dechen? popularity and diffusion
It is the 163,317th most widely held last name globally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 2,739,679 people. The surname is predominantly found in Asia, where 81 percent of Dechen live; 80 percent live in South Asia and 46 percent live in Islamic South Asia. It is also the 23,743rd most prevalent first name in the world. It is borne by 36,872 people.
It is most prevalent in India, where it is borne by 1,272 people, or 1 in 603,039. In India Dechen is primarily concentrated in: Jammu and Kashmir, where 96 percent reside, Arunachal Pradesh, where 2 percent reside and Delhi, where 0 percent reside. Aside from India this last name exists in 20 countries. It is also found in Bhutan, where 32 percent reside and Brazil, where 11 percent reside.
Dechen Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Dechen has changed through the years. In The United States the share of the population with the surname increased 1,675 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Dechen Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States Dechen are 11.63% more likely to be registered Democrats than the national average, with 64.86% being registered with the political party.
The amount Dechen earn in different countries varies greatly. In United States they earn 12.65% more than the national average, earning $48,607 USD per year and in Canada they earn 38.99% less than the national average, earning $30,310 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Dechen Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Dechen in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺩﺷﻦ | dshn | - |
| Dechen in the Tibetan language | ||
| བདེ་ཆེན་ | dechen | 77.25 |
| བདེ་ཆེན། | dechen | 18.29 |
| བེད་ཆེན་ | béchen | 1.86 |
| འདེ་ཆེན་ | déchen | 0.83 |
| བེད་ཆེན། | béchen | 0.36 |
| བདེ་ཆེན | dechen | 0.34 |
| འདེ་ཆེན། | déchen | 0.23 |
| བདེ་མཆེན་ | déchen | 0.17 |
| བདེ་ཆེན་། | dechen | 0.11 |
| བདེ་ཚེན་ | détsen | 0.06 |
| བདེ་མཆན་ | déchen | 0.06 |
| བདེ་ཆན་ | déchen | 0.06 |
| བདེ་མཚན་ | détsen | 0.06 |
| བདེ་ཆེད་ | déché | 0.06 |
| དམ་ཆོས་ | damchö | 0.04 |
| བདེ་ཆེ་ | déché | 0.02 |
| བདེ་མཚེན་ | détsen | 0.02 |
| ཨྱོན་ | yön | 0.02 |
| བདེ་ཆནེ་ | déchané | 0.02 |
| བདེ་མཚེན | détsen | 0.02 |
| རིན་ཆེན་ | rinchen | 0.02 |
| བདེ་ཆེད། | déché | 0.02 |
| འདེ་ཆོན། | déchön | 0.02 |
| བད་ཆེན་ | béchen | 0.02 |
| བདེ་ཆེན་མོ། | dechenmo | 0.02 |
| བདཻ་ཆཻན | daichain | 0.02 |
| བདེ་མཆེན། | déchen | 0.02 |
| Dechen in the Hindi language | ||
| देचेन | decena | 60 |
| देछेन | dechena | 20 |
| देचन | decana | 20 |
| Dechen in the Russian language | ||
| Дечен | decen | - |
| Dechen in the Arabic language | ||
| ديشين | dyshyn | - |
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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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- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Dechen
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