Denkar Surname

495,028th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 667 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Bhutan
Highest density in:
Bhutan

Denkar Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Denkar Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Bhutan4581:1,345124
India1661:4,620,876119,070
Thailand281:2,522,798271,580
Liberia111:400,77620,681
Bangladesh11:159,356,77326,077
France11:66,422,722504,397
Iran11:76,782,524277,718
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

Denkar (253) may also be a first name.

Denkar Last Name Facts

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

The surname Denkar (Hindi: दिनकर, Marathi: डेनकर, Tibetan: སྒྲོན་དཀར།) is borne by more people in Bhutan than any other country or territory. It may also appear as a variant:. For other potential spellings of Denkar click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Denkar? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 495,028th most commonly held surname internationally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 10,925,856 people. Denkar occurs predominantly in Asia, where 98 percent of Denkar live; 94 percent live in South Asia and 69 percent live in Tibeto-South Asia. Denkar is also the 560,146th most commonly held forename on earth, borne by 253 people.

The surname Denkar is most numerous in Bhutan, where it is carried by 458 people, or 1 in 1,345. In Bhutan Denkar is most common in: Thimphu District, where 42 percent live, Chukha District, where 20 percent live and Paro District, where 15 percent live. Barring Bhutan it is found in 7 countries. It is also common in India, where 25 percent live and Thailand, where 4 percent live.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Dhenkar9291/
Dehnkar928/
Deenkar925/
Dengkar924/
Denkart922/
Denkhar921/
Dennkar921/
Denkard920/
Dhenkare8634/
Dehenkar861/
Dhenkhar861/
Denkhart861/
Dinkar836,896/
Demkar8312/
Dhnkar832/
Denkor831/
Dencar831/
Dennkardt801/
Dhinkar77428/
Denkour77207/
Dinkare774/
Dinkkar772/
Dinkard772/
Dinkart771/
Ddinkar771/
Dhemkar771/
Dncar732/
Duinkhar714/
Dehenkhardt711/
Dencor6722/
Dincar672/
Demcar671/
Dinkor671/
Demkour621/
Demkore621/
Dencour620/
Dencourt576/
Diongcar571/
Dimcar501/

Denkar Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Denkar in the Hindi language
दिनकरdinakara-
Denkar in the Tibetan language
སྒྲོན་དཀར།drönkar55.67
སྒྲོལ་དཀར།drolkar37.44
སྒྲོན་དཀར་drönkar1.48
སྒྲོལ་དཀར་drolkar0.99
སྒྲལ་དཀར།dralkar0.99
སྒོན་དཀར།gönkar0.49
ལྡན་དཀར།denkar0.49
སྒྲོལ་དཀར་།drolkar0.49
སྒྲོན་ཀར།drönkar0.49
དོན་དཀར།dönkar0.49
སྒྲེན་དཀར།drenkar0.49
སྒྲོན་དཀར་།drönkar0.49
Denkar in the Marathi language
डेनकरdenakara46.71
देणकरdenakara16.96
िदनकरidanakara12.46
देनकरdenakara9.34
डेहणकरd'ehanakara4.15
डकरdakara2.77
डेहनकरd'ehanakara2.77
डेहाणकरd'ehanakara2.08
दीनकरdinakara1.04
देवकरdevakara0.69

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Footnotes

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