Gyamtsho Surname

1,775,494th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 107 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Bhutan
Highest density in:
Bhutan

Gyamtsho Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Gyamtsho Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Bhutan1041:5,923279
Thailand21:35,319,172966,191
Australia11:26,995,701270,794

Gyamtsho (45) may also be a first name.

Gyamtsho Last Name Facts

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

The surname Gyamtsho (Tibetan: རྒྱ་མཚོ།) is more commonly found in Bhutan than any other country or territory. It may also be rendered as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Gyamtsho? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 1,775,494th most frequently used surname on earth, borne by around 1 in 68,107,906 people. Gyamtsho occurs mostly in Asia, where 99 percent of Gyamtsho reside; 97 percent reside in South Asia and 97 percent reside in Tibeto-South Asia. Gyamtsho is also the 1,504,468th most commonly held first name internationally, borne by 45 people.

Gyamtsho is most frequently used in Bhutan, where it is held by 104 people, or 1 in 5,923. In Bhutan it is mostly concentrated in: Paro District, where 23 percent are found, Thimphu District, where 19 percent are found and Chukha District, where 13 percent are found. Apart from Bhutan it is found in 2 countries. It is also common in Thailand, where 2 percent are found and Australia, where 1 percent are found.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Gyamtso9373/
Gyemtsho882/
Gyamcho809/
Gyamchho754/
Djamtchou591/
Dyamco571/
Djamtsia501/

Gyamtsho Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Gyamtsho in the Tibetan language
རྒྱ་མཚོ།gyatso84.75
རྒྱ་མཚོ་gyatso8.47
རྒྱམ་མཚོ།gyamtso3.39
རྒྱ་མཆོ།gyacho1.69
རྒྱམ་མཚོ་gyamtso1.69

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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 Gyamtsho
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