Dorjey Surname
Approximately 7,600 people bear this surname
Dorjey Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| India | 7,594 | 1:101,009 | 6,629 |
| Bhutan | 3 | 1:205,346 | 1,091 |
| Nepal | 1 | 1:28,480,956 | 22,413 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Dorjey (4,180) may also be a first name.
Dorjey Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Dorjey Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Dorjey (Hindi: दूरजे, Tibetan: རྡོ་རྗེ།) is found most frequently in India. It can also occur as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Dorjey? popularity and diffusion
Dorjey is the 65,651st most widely held surname on a worldwide basis. It is borne by approximately 1 in 958,888 people. The last name occurs mostly in Asia, where 100 percent of Dorjey reside; 100 percent reside in South Asia and 99 percent reside in Islamic South Asia. Dorjey is also the 107,357th most numerous first name world-wide, borne by 4,180 people.
The surname is most frequently used in India, where it is carried by 7,594 people, or 1 in 101,009. In India it is most common in: Jammu and Kashmir, where 99 percent are found, Assam, where 0 percent are found and Delhi, where 0 percent are found. Outside of India Dorjey exists in 4 countries. It is also found in Bhutan, where 0 percent are found and Nepal, where 0 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Dorjey Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Dorjey in the Hindi language | ||
| दूरजे | duraje | - |
| Dorjey in the Tibetan language | ||
| རྡོ་རྗེ། | dorjé | 33.33 |
| རྡོར་རྗེ་ | dorjé | 16.67 |
| དོར་རྒྱ་ | dorgya | 16.67 |
| རྡོེ། | do | 16.67 |
| རྡོེ་ | do | 16.67 |
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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
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- 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 Dorjey
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