Kanchen Surname
Approximately 176 people bear this surname
Kanchen Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thailand | 108 | 1:654,059 | 109,897 |
| Poland | 43 | 1:883,924 | 67,072 |
| India | 6 | 1:127,844,230 | 863,365 |
| Malaysia | 6 | 1:4,915,704 | 170,578 |
| Brazil | 4 | 1:53,518,583 | 632,670 |
| Argentina | 3 | 1:14,247,805 | 235,975 |
| Taiwan | 2 | 1:11,722,373 | 63,559 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Kanchen (158) may also be a first name.
Kanchen Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kanchen Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Kanchen (Hindi: कंचेन, Marathi: कांचेन, Tibetan: ཀཱན་ཅན་) is more commonly found in Thailand than any other country/territory. It can be rendered as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Kanchen? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,290,735th most frequently occurring family name on a worldwide basis. It is borne by approximately 1 in 41,406,511 people. This surname occurs mostly in Asia, where 70 percent of Kanchen live; 65 percent live in Southeast Asia and 61 percent live in Tai-Asia. Kanchen is also the 730,165th most frequently used given name in the world, held by 158 people.
The last name is most prevalent in Thailand, where it is held by 108 people, or 1 in 654,059. In Thailand it is most numerous in: Nakhon Nayok Province, where 56 percent reside, Bangkok, where 28 percent reside and Chiang Mai Province, where 8 percent reside. Excluding Thailand it exists in 10 countries. It also occurs in Poland, where 24 percent reside and India, where 3 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kanchen Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kanchen in the Tibetan language | ||
| ཀཱན་ཅན་ | kenchen | - |
| Kanchen in the Marathi language | ||
| कांचेन | kancena | 85.71 |
| कांचन | kancana | 14.29 |
| Kanchen in the Hindi language | ||
| कंचेन | kancena | 33.33 |
| कंचन | kancana | 33.33 |
| कंंचन | kamncana | 33.33 |
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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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- 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 Kanchen
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