Lepcha Surname

6,167th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 91,761 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
India
Highest density in:
Bhutan

Lepcha Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Lepcha Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
India87,5881:8,758733
Bhutan3,8601:16030
United Arab Emirates971:94,4568,360
Hong Kong561:130,9912,371
Ukraine301:1,517,423120,367
Qatar221:107,18211,536
England211:2,653,24194,788
Nepal181:1,582,2757,357
United States141:25,889,924709,614
Thailand141:5,045,596363,835
Australia51:5,399,140162,351
Malaysia51:5,898,845196,803
Bahrain41:337,1526,054
Singapore41:1,376,92628,409
Scotland31:1,784,60641,943
Maldives21:202,0864,973
Luxembourg21:290,2718,611
Canada21:18,422,796409,488
Russia21:72,061,528727,117
Switzerland11:8,212,915156,297
South Africa11:54,177,704343,732
Wales11:3,094,53244,023
Seychelles11:92,3931,532
Saudi Arabia11:30,855,81763,028
Poland11:38,008,749231,653
Peru11:31,784,12364,452
Norway11:5,142,286129,201
New Zealand11:4,528,32355,372
Italy11:61,156,688199,583
Germany11:80,505,459560,955
France11:66,422,722504,397

Lepcha (38) may also be a first name.

Lepcha Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Lepcha Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Lepcha (Bengali: লেপচা, Hindi: लेप्चा, Marathi: लेपचा, Oriya: େଲପ୍ଚା, Russian: Лепча, Tibetan: ལེབ་ཅ།) is found in India more than any other country/territory. It can appear in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of Lepcha.

How Common Is The Last Name Lepcha? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 6,167th most commonly used last name on earth, borne by approximately 1 in 79,419 people. The surname Lepcha is mostly found in Asia, where 100 percent of Lepcha live; 100 percent live in South Asia and 95 percent live in Indo-South Asia. Lepcha is also the 1,662,754th most commonly occurring given name globally, held by 38 people.

The last name is most commonly held in India, where it is carried by 87,588 people, or 1 in 8,758. In India it is primarily concentrated in: Sikkim, where 55 percent reside, West Bengal, where 45 percent reside and Delhi, where 0 percent reside. Beside India Lepcha is found in 30 countries. It is also found in Bhutan, where 4 percent reside and The United Arab Emirates, where 0 percent reside.

Lepcha Last Name Statistics demography

Lepcha earn notably less less than the average income. In United States they earn 17.94% less than the national average, earning $35,406 USD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Leppcha923/
Lepchha923/
Leapcha921/
Lepchea921/
Llepcha921/
Lepchas921/
Lepca91822/
Lepschat8654/
Lapcha83227/
Lepsha83211/
Lepchi8326/
Lipcha8323/
Lephca8318/
Lopcha8318/
Lepcah8315/
Lepcia837/
Lebcha833/
Lepchy832/
Lepche831/
Lepcea831/
Lepcsa831/
Lepcza831/
Lapchaa77117/
Lipscha7741/
Lapchai7719/
Lopchai774/
Lepchei773/
Laipcha773/
Lebchaa771/
Lepcher771/
Lepsa73303/
Lipca73107/
Lepša7364/
Lepşa7338/
Lepco733/
Lypca731/
Lepja731/
Lebca731/
Lepshash7120/
Liapchai712/
Leabchai711/
Lipchach711/
Lipschat710/
Levsha672,016/
Lepsza67151/
Lepsia6776/
Lepcio6743/
Lypsha6738/
Livcha6731/
Hlepco6729/
Lapcho6721/
Lipsha6714/
Leibca678/
Libcha674/
Lipcea673/
Lyvcha673/
Lepsau673/
Lipschatz672/
Lipchi672/
Hlipca672/
Levcho672/
Lebsha671/
Lipcia671/
Lephge671/
Lepsat671/
Lepsea671/

Lepcha Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Lepcha in the Bengali language
লেপচাlepaca-
Lepcha in the Oriya language
େଲପ୍ଚାelapca-
Lepcha in the Tibetan language
ལེབ་ཅ།lebcha97.94
ལེབ་རྩ།lebtsa0.35
ལེབ་ཅཱ།lebcha0.29
ལོབ་ཅ།lobcha0.29
ལེབ་ཆ།lebcha0.24
ལབ་ཅ།labcha0.24
ལུབ་ཅ།lubcha0.18
ལེ་ཅ།lécha0.12
ལེབཅ།lebcha0.06
ལེབ།leb0.06
ལེབ་ཅlebcha0.06
ལེེབ་ཅ།lebcha0.06
ལེབ་ཙ།lebtsa0.06
ལེམ་ཅ།lemcha0.06
Lepcha in the Marathi language
लेपचाlepaca84.21
लेपच्याlepacya15.79
Lepcha in the Hindi language
लेप्चाlepca66.13
लेपचाlepaca25.81
लीप्चाlipca3.23
लिप्चाlipca1.61
लेपचीlepaci1.61
Lepcha in the Russian language
Лепчаlepca-

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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 Lepcha
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