Drakpa Surname
Approximately 509 people bear this surname
Drakpa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bhutan | 427 | 1:1,443 | 129 |
| India | 80 | 1:9,588,317 | 188,446 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
Drakpa (83) may also be a first name.
Drakpa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Drakpa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Drakpa (Tibetan: གྲགས་པ།) occurs more in Bhutan more than any other country/territory. It may also appear as a variant:. Click here to see other possible spellings of Drakpa.
How Common Is The Last Name Drakpa? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 608,234th most frequently used family name on earth, borne by approximately 1 in 14,317,379 people. This last name is mostly found in Asia, where 100 percent of Drakpa live; 100 percent live in South Asia and 84 percent live in Tibeto-South Asia. Drakpa is also the 1,052,971st most frequently used first name on earth, borne by 83 people.
The surname Drakpa is most frequent in Bhutan, where it is borne by 427 people, or 1 in 1,443. In Bhutan it is mostly found in: Mongar District, where 18 percent live, Thimphu District, where 15 percent live and Sarpang District, where 11 percent live. Excluding Bhutan Drakpa exists in 3 countries. It is also found in India, where 16 percent live and Benin, where 0 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Drakpa Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Drakpa in the Tibetan language | ||
| གྲགས་པ། | drakpa | 61.41 |
| དྲག་པ། | drakpa | 22.48 |
| དྲགས་པ། | drakpa | 8.72 |
| དྲག་པ་ | drakpa | 1.34 |
| གྲག་པ། | drakpa | 1.34 |
| གྲགས་པ་ | drakpa | 1.34 |
| འབྲུག་པ། | drukpa | 1.34 |
| འབྲགས་པ། | drakpa | 0.67 |
| དྲག་པ | drakpa | 0.67 |
| འགྲགས་པ། | drakpa | 0.34 |
| གྲགས་པ།་ | drakpa | 0.34 |
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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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- 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 Drakpa
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