Kesang Surname
Approximately 488 people bear this surname
Kesang Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| India | 324 | 1:2,367,486 | 76,917 |
| Indonesia | 63 | 1:2,099,194 | 130,130 |
| Cameroon | 43 | 1:483,002 | 39,429 |
| Bhutan | 42 | 1:14,668 | 421 |
| New Zealand | 9 | 1:503,147 | 33,029 |
| Papua New Guinea | 2 | 1:4,076,858 | 165,791 |
| Thailand | 2 | 1:35,319,172 | 966,191 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Kesang (3,595) may also be a first name.
Kesang Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kesang Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Kesang (Bengali: কেসং, Hindi: केसंग, Marathi: केसांग, Tibetan: སྐལ་བཟང་) is found in India more than any other country or territory. It may also be rendered as:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kesang? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 627,290th most frequently used last name globally. It is borne by around 1 in 14,933,496 people. The last name Kesang is mostly found in Asia, where 89 percent of Kesang live; 75 percent live in South Asia and 66 percent live in Indo-South Asia. Kesang is also the 118,007th most common first name globally, held by 3,595 people.
The surname is most widely held in India, where it is carried by 324 people, or 1 in 2,367,486. In India Kesang is most prevalent in: Arunachal Pradesh, where 70 percent reside, Himachal Pradesh, where 29 percent reside and Sikkim, where 1 percent reside. Excluding India Kesang occurs in 9 countries. It also occurs in Indonesia, where 13 percent reside and Cameroon, where 9 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kesang Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kesang in the Bengali language | ||
| কেসং | kesam | - |
| Kesang in the Hindi language | ||
| केसंग | kesanga | 97.14 |
| केसांग | kesanga | 2.86 |
| Kesang in the Tibetan language | ||
| སྐལ་བཟང་ | kalzang | 84.55 |
| བསྐལ་བཟང་ | kalzang | 6.87 |
| སྐལ་བཟང་། | kalzang | 6.01 |
| བསྐལ་སངས་ | kalsang | 0.86 |
| སྐད་སངས་ | késang | 0.43 |
| སྐྱེས་གསང་ | kyésang | 0.43 |
| བསྐལ་བཟང་། | kalzang | 0.43 |
| སྐལ་བཟང | kalzang | 0.43 |
| Kesang in the Marathi language | ||
| केसांग | kesanga | 66.67 |
| केसान | kesana | 16.67 |
| केसंग | kesanga | 16.67 |
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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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- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Kesang
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