Karchung Surname
Approximately 52 people bear this surname
Karchung Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bhutan | 45 | 1:13,690 | 406 |
| India | 7 | 1:109,580,769 | 786,157 |
Karchung (1,009) may also be a first name.
Karchung Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Karchung Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Karchung (Tibetan: དཀར་ཅུང་།) has its highest incidence in Bhutan. It may occur as:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Karchung? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 2,689,253rd most frequently held last name on a worldwide basis, borne by approximately 1 in 140,145,114 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Asia, where 100 percent of Karchung live; 100 percent live in South Asia and 87 percent live in Tibeto-South Asia. Karchung is also the 253,213th most frequently used first name internationally, borne by 1,009 people.
The last name Karchung is most numerous in Bhutan, where it is held by 45 people, or 1 in 13,690. In Bhutan Karchung is primarily concentrated in: Thimphu District, where 89 percent are found, Dagana District, where 7 percent are found and Bumthang District, where 2 percent are found. Apart from Bhutan it is found in one country. It also occurs in India, where 13 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Karchaung | 94 | 1 | / |
| Kar Cheung | 89 | 1 | / |
| Garchung | 88 | 7 | / |
| Karching | 88 | 2 | / |
| Kerchung | 88 | 1 | / |
| Karcheong | 82 | 5 | / |
| Karwchang | 82 | 1 | / |
| Karuchinga | 78 | 1 | / |
| Kharchunko | 78 | 1 | / |
| Karchnak | 75 | 49 | / |
| Kerchang | 75 | 6 | / |
| Kurchang | 75 | 5 | / |
| Karchenko | 71 | 301 | / |
| Kirchinga | 71 | 24 | / |
| Karchnick | 71 | 9 | / |
| Kurchenga | 71 | 8 | / |
| Korchinga | 71 | 5 | / |
| Karchnyak | 71 | 5 | / |
| Kraichang | 71 | 1 | / |
| Karchinko | 71 | 1 | / |
| Kharchenk | 71 | 1 | / |
| Kharchnko | 71 | 1 | / |
| Keardsung | 71 | 1 | / |
| Kherching | 71 | 1 | / |
| Kourching | 71 | 1 | / |
| Kharchenko | 67 | 93,350 | / |
| Karachenko | 67 | 321 | / |
| Krechuniak | 67 | 234 | / |
| Krchnák | 67 | 173 | / |
| Krchnak | 67 | 173 | / |
| Krchník | 67 | 51 | / |
| Krechunyak | 67 | 43 | / |
| Karychenko | 67 | 16 | / |
| Karichenko | 67 | 10 | / |
| Kharchinko | 67 | 9 | / |
| Kurichenga | 67 | 8 | / |
| Kharchynko | 67 | 3 | / |
| Kharchanka | 67 | 3 | / |
| Krchnik | 67 | 2 | / |
| Kairchenko | 67 | 2 | / |
| Karechenko | 67 | 2 | / |
| Kharchenok | 67 | 2 | / |
| Karochenko | 67 | 2 | / |
| Karuchenko | 67 | 2 | / |
| Kharchenco | 67 | 2 | / |
| Karachenka | 67 | 1 | / |
| Krychunyak | 67 | 1 | / |
| Karachenok | 67 | 1 | / |
| Kahrchenko | 67 | 1 | / |
| Kerchink | 63 | 0 | / |
| Keardsoong | 56 | 1 | / |
Karchung Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Karchung in the Tibetan language | ||
| དཀར་ཅུང་། | karchung | 81.67 |
| དཀར་ཅུང་ | karchung | 6.11 |
| དཀར་ཅུང། | karchung | 5.66 |
| དཀར་ཆུང་། | karchung | 1.58 |
| དཀར་བཅུང་། | karchung | 0.9 |
| དཀར་ཆུང་ | karchung | 0.68 |
| དཀར་གཅུང་། | karchung | 0.68 |
| དཀར་གཅུང་ | karchung | 0.68 |
| དཀར་གཅུང། | karchung | 0.45 |
| དཀར་བཅུང། | karchung | 0.45 |
| ཀར་གཅུང་། | karchung | 0.23 |
| དཀར་གཙུང། | kartsung | 0.23 |
| དཀར་བཅུང་ | karchung | 0.23 |
| དཀར་ཆུང། | karchung | 0.23 |
| དཀར་ཅུང་་ | karchung | 0.23 |
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Footnotes
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- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Karchung
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