Dhungyel Surname

1,518,885th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 137 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Bhutan
Highest density in:
Bhutan

Dhungyel Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Dhungyel Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Bhutan1251:4,928259
India51:153,413,076951,030
United States41:90,614,7331,198,479
Norway21:2,571,14395,402
Australia11:26,995,701270,794

Dhungyel Last Name Facts

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

Dhungyel (Tibetan: གདུང་རྒྱལ།) is found in Bhutan more than any other country or territory. It may also be found as:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Dhungyel? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 1,518,885th most frequently used family name in the world. It is borne by around 1 in 53,193,766 people. Dhungyel occurs mostly in Asia, where 95 percent of Dhungyel are found; 95 percent are found in South Asia and 91 percent are found in Tibeto-South Asia.

This surname is most frequently held in Bhutan, where it is carried by 125 people, or 1 in 4,928. In Bhutan it is most frequent in: Samtse District, where 64 percent live, Sarpang District, where 21 percent live and Tsirang District, where 10 percent live. Excluding Bhutan this last name occurs in 4 countries. It is also common in India, where 4 percent live and The United States, where 3 percent live.

Phonetically Similar Names

Dhungyel Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Dhungyel in the Tibetan language
གདུང་རྒྱལ།dunggyal28.77
དྲུང་རྒྱལ།drunggyal19.18
དུང་རྒྱལ།dunggyal17.81
དུང་གལ།dunggal15.07
གྲུང་རྒྱལ།drunggyal15.07
དྲུང་ག་ན།drunggana1.37
དྲ྄ང་རྒྱལ།drnggyal1.37
དྲུང་རྒྱར།drunggyar1.37

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Footnotes

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