Moktan Surname

21,339th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 25,549 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Nepal
Highest density in:
Bhutan

Moktan Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Moktan Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Nepal19,3591:1,471226
India4,6411:165,28010,274
Bhutan6491:949109
Saudi Arabia1991:155,05422,057
Qatar1441:16,3751,767
Malaysia1401:210,67312,296
United Arab Emirates1331:68,8896,446
United States921:3,939,771214,590
Bahrain591:22,8584,582
Kuwait391:97,45410,676
England211:2,653,24194,788
Canada181:2,046,977128,463
Australia131:2,076,59293,242
Thailand61:11,773,058553,295
Hong Kong41:1,833,8716,220
Germany41:20,126,365436,245
Singapore41:1,376,92628,409
Japan31:42,614,76459,022
Afghanistan31:10,717,72835,605
Maldives21:202,0864,973
Norway21:2,571,14395,402
Finland21:2,748,35172,663
Austria11:8,515,435118,036
Oman11:3,687,97114,390
Switzerland11:8,212,915156,297
Sweden11:9,846,757347,448
South Korea11:51,240,2568,015
Brunei11:418,7313,893
Russia11:144,123,056881,408
Cambodia11:15,487,14614,824
Philippines11:101,238,223404,861
Cyprus11:884,87613,055
Iceland11:380,09011,096
France11:66,422,722504,397

Moktan (64) may also be a first name.

Moktan Last Name Facts

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

The surname Moktan (Hindi: मोक्तान, Marathi: मोान, Oriya: େମାକ୍ତାନ, Russian: Моктан, Tibetan: མོག་ཏཱན།) occurs more in Nepal more than any other country/territory. It may be found as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of Moktan.

How Common Is The Last Name Moktan? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 21,339th most frequently held surname at a global level, held by around 1 in 285,238 people. This surname is predominantly found in Asia, where 99 percent of Moktan reside; 96 percent reside in South Asia and 94 percent reside in Indo-South Asia. It is also the 1,223,525th most common first name world-wide, borne by 64 people.

The last name Moktan is most common in Nepal, where it is borne by 19,359 people, or 1 in 1,471. In Nepal Moktan is most numerous in: Janakpur, where 35 percent reside, Bagmati, where 26 percent reside and Narayani, where 21 percent reside. Excluding Nepal this surname occurs in 33 countries. It also occurs in India, where 18 percent reside and Bhutan, where 3 percent reside.

Moktan Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those holding the Moktan last name are 17.52% more likely to be registered Republicans than The US average, with 64.29% registered with the party.

The amount Moktan earn in different countries varies somewhat. In United States they earn 19.94% more than the national average, earning $51,755 USD per year and in Canada they earn 11.7% more than the national average, earning $55,498 CAD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Mokhtan9291/
Mokttan9278/
Mokthan924/
Mocktan922/
Mouktan922/
Mooktan921/
Mokktan921/
Mokhtane861/
Muktan8329,704/
Maktan83215/
Mektan8316/
Mogtan8314/
Moctan833/
Mokton831/
Mukttan77129/
Makthan77123/
Mokhtam7723/
Makhtan7717/
Mukhtan7714/
Mockton7713/
Moktong778/
Mukthan778/
Maktang777/
Mekthan776/
Mauktan774/
Mektain774/
Moktham774/
Moktoun773/
Mogtain773/
Mokhton771/
Maktane771/
Moqtane771/
Mukktan771/
Mokthong71471/
Mooktong714/
Makthane712/
Makthang712/
Hmoktong712/
Mokhtoun712/
Moukhtam711/
Mouktong711/
Mooktham711/
Mouckton710/
Mactan6750/
Mocton6742/
Muktanova676/
Mockthong676/
Magtan675/
Maqtan674/
Moukthong673/
Mhokthong673/
Makton673/
Mugtan672/
Moqtam672/
Mookthong671/
Maktanova671/
Mekton671/
Mokhtasim671/
Hmokthong671/

Moktan Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Moktan in the Hindi language
मोक्तानmoktana-
Moktan in the Oriya language
େମାକ୍ତାନemaktana-
Moktan in the Marathi language
मोानmoana-
Moktan in the Tibetan language
མོག་ཏཱན།mokten56.21
མོག་ཏན།mokten40.42
མོག་ཏན་mokten0.84
མུག་ཏཱན།mukten0.63
མ་ཡ་མོག་ཏན་mayamokten0.21
མོང་ཏན།mongten0.21
བྷ་འདུར་མོང་གར་bhadurmonggar0.21
མོང་གར།monggar0.21
བྷ་འདུར་མོག་ཏན་bhadurmokten0.21
མོག་དཱན།mokden0.21
མོ་ཏཱན།moten0.21
མོང་ཏཱན།mongten0.21
མོག་ཏཱན་mokten0.21
Moktan in the Russian language
Моктанmoktan-

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  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Moktan
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