Dophu Surname

3,602,217th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 30 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Bhutan
Highest density in:
Bhutan

Dophu Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Dophu Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Bhutan221:28,002527
Bangladesh41:39,839,19317,324
South Africa21:27,088,852277,613
South Korea11:51,240,2568,015
Vietnam11:92,646,0548,382

Dophu (1,043) may also be a first name.

Dophu Last Name Facts

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

The last name Dophu (Tibetan: རྡོ་ཕུག།) is more commonly found in Bhutan than any other country/territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Dophu? popularity and diffusion

Dophu is the 3,602,217th most frequently occurring family name internationally, held by around 1 in 242,918,197 people. This surname is mostly found in Asia, where 93 percent of Dophu are found; 87 percent are found in South Asia and 73 percent are found in Tibeto-South Asia. Dophu is also the 248,067th most numerous forename throughout the world, borne by 1,043 people.

The last name Dophu is most numerous in Bhutan, where it is held by 22 people, or 1 in 28,002. In Bhutan Dophu is mostly found in: Wangdue Phodrang District, where 59 percent live, Paro District, where 14 percent live and Punakha District, where 14 percent live. Not including Bhutan this surname occurs in 4 countries. It is also common in Bangladesh, where 13 percent live and South Africa, where 7 percent live.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Dophus911/
Dopu89283/
Doophud831/
Dopeu80244/
Dopuđ80201/
Daphu8059/
Duopu8036/
Doppu8021/
Dopou8020/
Dopud8018/
Dopuy8011/
Dephu807/
Doput805/
Dopui804/
Doupu801/
Dopuz801/
Dhopu801/
Dopuđa73289/
Dopuch73103/
Dopeux7322/
Dapphu7312/
Doudpu7310/
Doddpu738/
Dopouy735/
Dadphu734/
Depheu733/
Doupou732/
Daphut731/
Daphuy731/
Daphui731/
Dhephu731/
Dosspu731/
Dhopeu731/
Daphus731/
Dhoppu731/
Doupuy731/
Dopuis730/
Dapu671,694/
Depu67709/
Dofu67173/
Doupeux67142/
Dospeux6713/
Doupouy6712/
Doupoux6712/
Daphaud679/
Deephui676/
Dauphou673/
Dhoddpu671/
Doubpou671/

Dophu Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Dophu in the Tibetan language
རྡོ་ཕུག།dopuk62.58
རྡོ་ཕུག་dopuk29.87
རྡོ་ཕུ།dopu3.77
རྡོ་ཕུ་dopu1.26
མདོ་ཕུ།dopu0.63
རྡོ་ཕུག་།dopuk0.31
མདོ་ཕུག།dopuk0.31
ལྡོ་ཕུག་dopuk0.31
རྡོ་ཕུགdopuk0.31
དོ་ཕུག།dopuk0.31
རྡོ་ཕུགས་dopuk0.31

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