Gyeltshen Surname

54,404th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 9,352 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Bhutan
Highest density in:
Bhutan

Gyeltshen Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Gyeltshen Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Bhutan9,2491:6714
Thailand441:1,605,417210,847
India221:34,866,608408,224
Australia111:2,454,155103,534
United States61:60,409,8221,028,827
Myanmar41:12,984,4961,309
Malaysia21:14,747,112316,340
Netherlands21:8,443,588136,641
Iceland11:380,09011,096
Japan11:127,844,29373,547
France11:66,422,722504,397
Mongolia11:2,825,28917,010
Finland11:5,496,70284,025
China11:1,367,321,56651,149
Philippines11:101,238,223404,861
Singapore11:5,507,70347,049
Spain11:46,752,036156,870
Switzerland11:8,212,915156,297
Brazil11:214,074,3321,693,628
Bangladesh11:159,356,77326,077

Gyeltshen (2,073) may also be a first name.

Gyeltshen Last Name Facts

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

The last name Gyeltshen (Tibetan: རྒྱལ་མཚན།) is found in Bhutan more than any other country/territory. It may also occur in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Gyeltshen? popularity and diffusion

Gyeltshen is the 54,404th most commonly used family name throughout the world, held by around 1 in 779,250 people. This surname occurs mostly in Asia, where 100 percent of Gyeltshen live; 99 percent live in South Asia and 99 percent live in Tibeto-South Asia. Gyeltshen is also the 165,557th most commonly used first name world-wide, held by 2,073 people.

The surname Gyeltshen is most widely held in Bhutan, where it is borne by 9,249 people, or 1 in 67. In Bhutan it is most common in: Thimphu District, where 24 percent live, Trashigang District, where 12 percent live and Wangdue Phodrang District, where 10 percent live. Apart from Bhutan this surname occurs in 19 countries. It also occurs in Thailand, where 0 percent live and India, where 0 percent live.

Gyeltshen Last Name Statistics demography

Gyeltshen earn more than fifty percent more than the average income. In United States they earn 64.64% more than the national average, earning $71,042 USD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Geltshen941/
Gyaltshen891,841/
Gyeltshan891/
Gyletshen891/
Gyelchen821/
Gyaltshan782/
Geilitshane702/
Geilitshana701/
Gilitshane632/

Gyeltshen Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Gyeltshen in the Tibetan language
རྒྱལ་མཚན།gyaltsen95.45
རྒྱལ་མཚན་gyaltsen3.14
རྒྱལ་ཚན།gyaltsen0.33
རྒྱལ་མཆན།gyalchen0.27
རྒྱལ་མཚོན།gyaltsön0.08
རྒྱལ་མཚེན།gyaltsen0.08
རྒྱ་མཚན།gyatsen0.08
རྒྱལ་མཚནgyaltsen0.08
རྒྱས་མཚན།gyétsen0.06
རྒྱལ་མཚན་།gyaltsen0.06
རྒྱལ་འཚན།gyaltsen0.04
རྒྱལ་མཛན།gyaldzen0.04
དངོས་གྲུབ་ngödrub0.02
རྒྱ་ལ་མཚན།gyalatsen0.02
གྱལ་མཚན།gyaltsen0.02
རྒྱལ་བཚན།gyalbatsen0.02
རྒྱལ་ཆེན་gyalchen0.02
རྒྱལ་མཚེན་gyaltsen0.02
རྒལ་མཚན།galtsen0.02
རྒྱམ་མཚན།gyamtsen0.02
རྒྱལ་མཚན།།gyaltsen0.02
རྒྲམ་མཚན།rgramtsen0.02
མརྒྱལ་མཚན།magyaltsen0.02
རྒྱལ་མཆེན་gyalchen0.02
རྒྱལ་མཚཽན།gyaltsaun0.02
རྒྱན་མཚན།gyentsen0.02

Search for Another Surname

The name statistics are still in development, sign up for information on more maps and data

By signing up to the mailing list you will only receive emails specifically about name reference on Forebears and your information will not be distributed to 3rd parties.

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 Gyeltshen
  • To find out more about this surname's family history, lookup records on Family​Search, My​Heritage, FindMyPast and Ancestry. Further information may be obtained by DNA analysis