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།) has its highest incidence in Bhutan. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Dhungyel? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 1,518,885th most frequent family name in the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 53,193,766 people. This last name is primarily found in Asia, where 95 percent of Dhungyel reside; 95 percent reside in South Asia and 91 percent reside in Tibeto-South Asia.

The surname Dhungyel is most frequently held in Bhutan, where it is borne by 125 people, or 1 in 4,928. In Bhutan Dhungyel is primarily concentrated in: Samtse District, where 64 percent are found, Sarpang District, where 21 percent are found and Tsirang District, where 10 percent are found. Other than Bhutan Dhungyel is found in 4 countries. It is also common in India, where 4 percent are found and The United States, where 3 percent are found.

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

  • Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
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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 Dhungyel
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