Kelzang Surname

1,871,545th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 98 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Bhutan
Highest density in:
Bhutan

Kelzang Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Kelzang Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Bhutan971:6,351284
India11:767,065,3821,851,717

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

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Kalzang8687/
Kelsang8680/
Kalazang8022/
Kelezonga754/
Kolzing7124/
Klozing7119/
Klazanc7117/
Kilsang712/
Kalzing712/
Klizing711/
Klazing711/
Kilzing710/
Klazinga67191/
Klijzing67115/
Klauzing671/
Kilcoyng531/

Kelzang Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Kelzang in the Tibetan language
སྐལ་བཟང་kalzang79.16
སྐལ་བཟང་།kalzang15.06
བསྐལ་བཟང་kalzang3.08
སྐལ་བཟང།kalzang1.24
བསྐལ་བཟང་།kalzang0.5
ཀུན་བཟང་kunzang0.25
བཀལ་བཟང་kalzang0.11
སྐལ་མཟང་kalmazang0.07
བཀལ་བཟང་།kalzang0.07
སྐལ་བཟ་ང།kalzanga0.04
ཧྐལ་བཟང་hkalzang0.04
བསྐལབཟང་kalbazang0.04
སྐར་བཟང་karzang0.04
སྐལབཟང་kalbazang0.04
ཆོས་སྒྲོན།chödrön0.04
སྐཡ་བཟང་kayazang0.04
སྐལ་ཟབང་kalzabang0.04
སྐབ་བཟང་།kabzang0.04
བསྐལ་་བཟང་kalzang0.04
སྐལ་བཟངkalzang0.04
སཀལ་བཟང་sakalzang0.04
སྐལ་བཟཟང་kalzazang0.04

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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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  • 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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