Lingchen Surname
Approximately 22 people bear this surname
Lingchen Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taiwan | 19 | 1:1,233,934 | 8,385 |
| China | 2 | 1:683,660,783 | 30,601 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
Lingchen (12,709) may also be a first name.
Lingchen Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Lingchen Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Lingchen (Tibetan: གླིང་སྤྱན་) is carried by more people in Taiwan than any other country or territory. It can be found in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Lingchen? popularity and diffusion
Lingchen is the 4,206,983rd most commonly held surname on a worldwide basis, borne by approximately 1 in 331,252,087 people. It occurs mostly in Asia, where 100 percent of Lingchen live; 95 percent live in East Asia and 95 percent live in Sino-East Asia. It is also the 52,080th most frequent first name throughout the world, borne by 12,709 people.
The last name Lingchen is most widely held in Taiwan, where it is held by 19 people, or 1 in 1,233,934. In Taiwan Lingchen is mostly concentrated in: Kaohsiung City, where 58 percent are found, Keelung City, where 16 percent are found and Chiayi County, where 5 percent are found. Besides Taiwan this surname exists in 2 countries. It is also common in China, where 9 percent are found and Thailand, where 5 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lingcheng | 94 | 6 | / |
| Linchen | 93 | 7,001 | / |
| Lingceng | 88 | 1 | / |
| Lincen | 86 | 5 | / |
| Linggen | 80 | 36 | / |
| Linchin | 80 | 14 | / |
| Lingken | 80 | 8 | / |
| Lingsen | 80 | 6 | / |
| Lenchen | 80 | 4 | / |
| Lingjen | 80 | 1 | / |
| Lincken | 80 | 0 | / |
| Lengshen | 75 | 1 | / |
| Löhnchen | 75 | 1 | / |
| Linken | 71 | 161 | / |
| Linxen | 71 | 30 | / |
| Lincin | 71 | 8 | / |
| Lynghøjen | 71 | 1 | / |
| Linggin | 67 | 64 | / |
| Lingkin | 67 | 45 | / |
| Lengken | 67 | 23 | / |
| Lyngken | 67 | 7 | / |
| Lingqin | 67 | 6 | / |
| Lingqun | 67 | 2 | / |
| Lenggen | 67 | 2 | / |
| Lingxin | 67 | 2 | / |
| Lingsin | 67 | 1 | / |
| Linkaen | 67 | 1 | / |
| Lncn | 67 | 1 | / |
| Lingjin | 67 | 1 | / |
| Lengsen | 67 | 0 | / |
| Linckin | 67 | 0 | / |
Lingchen Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Lingchen in the Tibetan language | ||
| གླིང་སྤྱན་ | lingchen | 50 |
| གླིང་ཆེན། | lingchen | 50 |
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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 Lingchen
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