Kelzang Surname
Approximately 98 people bear this surname
Kelzang Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bhutan | 97 | 1:6,351 | 284 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
Kelzang (5,406) may also be a first name.
Kelzang Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kelzang Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kelzang (Tibetan: སྐལ་བཟང་) is more commonly found in Bhutan than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Kelzang? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,871,545th most commonly held last name at a global level It is held by approximately 1 in 74,362,713 people. The surname is primarily found in Asia, where 100 percent of Kelzang are found; 100 percent are found in South Asia and 99 percent are found in Tibeto-South Asia. It is also the 91,533rd most commonly occurring first name world-wide It is held by 5,406 people.
The surname is most commonly occurring in Bhutan, where it is borne by 97 people, or 1 in 6,351. In Bhutan Kelzang is most numerous in: Zhemgang District, where 23 percent are found, Mongar District, where 15 percent are found and Sarpang District, where 13 percent are found. Without taking into account Bhutan this surname occurs in one country. It also occurs in India, where 1 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kelzang Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kelzang in the Tibetan language | ||
| སྐལ་བཟང་ | kalzang | 79.16 |
| སྐལ་བཟང་། | kalzang | 15.06 |
| བསྐལ་བཟང་ | kalzang | 3.08 |
| སྐལ་བཟང། | kalzang | 1.24 |
| བསྐལ་བཟང་། | kalzang | 0.5 |
| ཀུན་བཟང་ | kunzang | 0.25 |
| བཀལ་བཟང་ | kalzang | 0.11 |
| སྐལ་མཟང་ | kalmazang | 0.07 |
| བཀལ་བཟང་། | kalzang | 0.07 |
| སྐལ་བཟ་ང། | kalzanga | 0.04 |
| ཧྐལ་བཟང་ | hkalzang | 0.04 |
| བསྐལབཟང་ | kalbazang | 0.04 |
| སྐར་བཟང་ | karzang | 0.04 |
| སྐལབཟང་ | kalbazang | 0.04 |
| ཆོས་སྒྲོན། | chödrön | 0.04 |
| སྐཡ་བཟང་ | kayazang | 0.04 |
| སྐལ་ཟབང་ | kalzabang | 0.04 |
| སྐབ་བཟང་། | kabzang | 0.04 |
| བསྐལ་་བཟང་ | kalzang | 0.04 |
| སྐལ་བཟང | kalzang | 0.04 |
| སཀལ་བཟང་ | sakalzang | 0.04 |
| སྐལ་བཟཟང་ | kalzazang | 0.04 |
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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
- 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 Kelzang
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