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
The last name Kelzang (Tibetan: སྐལ་བཟང་) is carried by more people in Bhutan than any other country/territory. It may also appear in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kelzang? popularity and diffusion
Kelzang is the 1,871,545th most widespread last name at a global level, borne by around 1 in 74,362,713 people. This last name occurs predominantly 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. Kelzang is also the 91,533rd most prevalent first name throughout the world It is held by 5,406 people.
It is most numerous in Bhutan, where it is carried by 97 people, or 1 in 6,351. In Bhutan Kelzang is mostly found in: Zhemgang District, where 23 percent live, Mongar District, where 15 percent live and Sarpang District, where 13 percent live. Excluding Bhutan Kelzang exists in one country. It also occurs in India, where 1 percent live.
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
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- 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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