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

Dophu (Tibetan: རྡོ་ཕུག།) is most common in Bhutan. It can also occur as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of Dophu.

How Common Is The Last Name Dophu? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 3,602,217th most frequent surname on a worldwide basis. It is borne by around 1 in 242,918,197 people. The last name is predominantly found in Asia, where 93 percent of Dophu live; 87 percent live in South Asia and 73 percent live in Tibeto-South Asia. Dophu is also the 248,067th most commonly held forename on earth, held by 1,043 people.

This last name is most commonly occurring in Bhutan, where it is carried by 22 people, or 1 in 28,002. In Bhutan Dophu is mostly concentrated in: Wangdue Phodrang District, where 59 percent live, Paro District, where 14 percent live and Punakha District, where 14 percent live. Aside from Bhutan this last name exists in 4 countries. It also occurs 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

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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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