Jamtsho Surname

112,811th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 4,104 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Bhutan
Highest density in:
Bhutan

Jamtsho Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Jamtsho Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Bhutan4,0161:15329
India451:17,045,897267,282
Thailand111:6,421,668407,040
United States111:32,950,812797,015
Australia71:3,856,529135,538
Netherlands61:2,814,529101,176
Japan21:63,922,14662,827
South Korea21:25,620,1284,175
Angola11:26,989,21411,853
Canada11:36,845,591464,108
Malaysia11:29,494,225409,885
Sri Lanka11:20,808,56018,521

Jamtsho (944) may also be a first name.

Jamtsho Last Name Facts

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

The last name Jamtsho (Tibetan: རྒྱ་མཚོ།) occurs more in Bhutan more than any other country/territory. It may also be found in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Jamtsho? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 112,811th most numerous family name on a worldwide basis, held by approximately 1 in 1,775,718 people. The last name Jamtsho is predominantly found in Asia, where 99 percent of Jamtsho are found; 99 percent are found in South Asia and 98 percent are found in Tibeto-South Asia. It is also the 262,971st most prevalent given name on earth, borne by 944 people.

The last name is most frequently used in Bhutan, where it is held by 4,016 people, or 1 in 153. In Bhutan it is most common in: Trashigang District, where 17 percent are found, Samdrup Jongkhar District, where 16 percent are found and Mongar District, where 11 percent are found. Other than Bhutan this surname is found in 11 countries. It also occurs in India, where 1 percent are found and Thailand, where 0 percent are found.

Jamtsho Last Name Statistics demography

Jamtsho earn significantly less than the average income. In United States they earn 25.65% less than the national average, earning $32,083 USD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Jamtso9210/
Jeantsho801/
Jamcho7730/
Jomtso771/
Djamtchou751/
Jamtsaa7165/
Jamchoy716/
Yamtsop712/
Joumtso711/
Santsho711/
Seamtso711/
Cantsho711/
Jantsha711/
Chamtso711/
Jantcho711/
Jamchho711/
Jamco67794/
Jantscha679/
Chamtsio672/
Khamtsha671/
Djantcho671/
Yamtchop671/
Jamzo671/

Jamtsho Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Jamtsho in the Tibetan language
རྒྱ་མཚོ།gyatso96.01
རྒྱ་མཚོ་gyatso1.47
རྒྱམ་མཚོ།gyamtso0.86
རྒྱམ་ཚོགས།gyamtsok0.34
རྒྱ་མཚོgyatso0.19
རྒྱམ་ཚོ།gyamtso0.15
རྒྱམ་མཚོ་gyamtso0.11
རྒྱམ་ཚོགས་gyamtsok0.11
རྒྱ་མཚོ་།gyatso0.11
རྒྱ་མཚོགས།gyatsok0.08
རྒྱམ་མཆོ།gyamcho0.08
རྒྱ་མམཚོ།gyamamtso0.04
རྒྱ་ཚོགས།gyatsok0.04
རྒྱལ་མཚོ།gyaltso0.04
བརྒྱ་མཚོ།gyatso0.04
རགྱ་མཚོ།ragyatso0.04
རྒྱ་མཚཽག།gyatsauk0.04
འཇམ་ཚོགས།jamtsok0.04
རྒྱ་མཚེོ།gyatsé0.04
མཚོ།tso0.04
རྒྱ་མཚན།gyatsen0.04
རྒྱམ་མཆོ་gyamcho0.04
མཚོ་མོ།tsomo0.04
རྒྱམ་མཚོགས།gyamtsok0.04

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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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