Gyaltshen Surname

221,588th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 1,841 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Bhutan
Highest density in:
Bhutan

Gyaltshen Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Gyaltshen Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Bhutan1,8101:34059
India141:54,790,384527,769
United States101:36,245,893832,629
Thailand51:14,127,669603,945
Singapore11:5,507,70347,049
Spain11:46,752,036156,870

Gyaltshen (343) may also be a first name.

Gyaltshen Last Name Facts

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

The last name Gyaltshen (Tibetan: རྒྱལ་མཚན།) is found in Bhutan more than any other country/territory. It may occur in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Gyaltshen? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 221,588th most commonly used last name worldwide, held by around 1 in 3,958,471 people. The surname Gyaltshen is predominantly found in Asia, where 99 percent of Gyaltshen live; 99 percent live in South Asia and 98 percent live in Tibeto-South Asia. Gyaltshen is also the 471,283rd most frequent first name at a global level It is held by 343 people.

This surname is most frequent in Bhutan, where it is carried by 1,810 people, or 1 in 340. In Bhutan it is primarily concentrated in: Chukha District, where 28 percent reside, Mongar District, where 18 percent reside and Trashigang District, where 12 percent reside. Barring Bhutan it exists in 5 countries. It is also found in India, where 1 percent reside and The United States, where 1 percent reside.

Gyaltshen Last Name Statistics demography

Gyaltshen earn significantly more than the average income. In United States they earn 29.06% more than the national average, earning $55,688 USD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Gyeltshen899,352/
Gyaltshan892/
Gyletshen891/
Gyalchen827/
Geltshen821/
Gyeltshan781/
Gilitshane632/
Geilitshane602/
Geilitshana601/

Gyaltshen Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Gyaltshen in the Tibetan language
རྒྱལ་མཚན།gyaltsen94.85
རྒྱལ་མཚན་gyaltsen3.76
རྒྱས་མཚན།gyétsen0.59
རྒྱལ་མཚནgyaltsen0.3
རྒྱལ་ཚན།gyaltsen0.2
རྒྱ་མཚན།gyatsen0.1
རྒྱལ་མཛན།gyaldzen0.1
རྒྱལལ་མཚན།gyalaltsen0.1

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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
  • Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
  • 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 Gyaltshen
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