Namgay Surname
Approximately 2,573 people bear this surname
Namgay Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bhutan | 2,559 | 1:241 | 46 |
| India | 7 | 1:109,580,769 | 786,157 |
| Australia | 4 | 1:6,748,925 | 181,100 |
| Malaysia | 2 | 1:14,747,112 | 316,340 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
Namgay (8,535) may also be a first name.
Namgay Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Namgay Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Namgay (Tibetan: རྣམ་རྒྱས་) is most common in Bhutan. It can also be rendered as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Namgay? popularity and diffusion
The surname Namgay is the 168,030th most prevalent last name on a worldwide basis It is held by around 1 in 2,832,315 people. This surname occurs mostly in Asia, where 100 percent of Namgay are found; 100 percent are found in South Asia and 99 percent are found in Tibeto-South Asia. It is also the 68,139th most commonly occurring given name in the world, held by 8,535 people.
It is most numerous in Bhutan, where it is held by 2,559 people, or 1 in 241. In Bhutan Namgay is most frequent in: Thimphu District, where 29 percent live, Chukha District, where 10 percent live and Paro District, where 7 percent live. Without taking into account Bhutan this surname is found in 4 countries. It is also found in India, where 0 percent live and Australia, where 0 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Namgay Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Namgay in the Tibetan language | ||
| རྣམ་རྒྱས་ | namgyé | 31.75 |
| རྣམ་རྒྱལ་ | namgyal | 27.3 |
| རྣམ་རྒྱས། | namgyé | 19.68 |
| རྣམ་རྒྱལ། | namgyal | 17.93 |
| རྣམས་རྒྱས་ | namgyé | 1.16 |
| རྣམས་རྒྱས། | namgyé | 0.52 |
| རྣམ་རྒྱལ | namgyal | 0.2 |
| རྣམ་རྒྱས | namgyé | 0.17 |
| རྣམས་རྒྱལ། | namgyal | 0.17 |
| རྣམ་རྒྱས་། | namgyé | 0.15 |
| རྣམ་རྒྱལ་། | namgyal | 0.15 |
| ནམས་རྒྱས། | namgyé | 0.12 |
| རྣམས་རྒྱལ་ | namgyal | 0.07 |
| ནམས་རྒྱས་ | namgyé | 0.07 |
| ལྣམ་རྒྱལ། | lnamgyal | 0.05 |
| གནམ་རྒྱས་ | namgyé | 0.02 |
| རྣམསརྒྱལ་ | namsagyal | 0.02 |
| རརྣམ་རྒྱས། | ranamgyé | 0.02 |
| རྣམ་རྒྱས་་ | namgyé | 0.02 |
| རྣམ་སྒྱས། | namgyé | 0.02 |
| ནམ་རྒྱས། | namgyé | 0.02 |
| རྣམ་རྒྱས༑ | namgyé | 0.02 |
| གནམ་རྒྱལ། | namgyal | 0.02 |
| རནམ་རྒྱས། | ranamgyé | 0.02 |
| རྣམ་ལྒྱལ་ | namlgyal | 0.02 |
| ནམ་རྒྱལ་། | namgyal | 0.02 |
| རནམ་རྒྱལ་ | ranamgyal | 0.02 |
| རྣམ་རྮྒྱལ། | namrshygyal | 0.02 |
| ངག་དབང་ | ngawang | 0.02 |
| རྣམ་རྒྱར། | namgyar | 0.02 |
| རྣམ་རྒྱས་ལ། | namgyéla | 0.02 |
| རྣམ་རྒྲལ་ | namrgral | 0.02 |
| གནམ་སྒང་། | namgang | 0.02 |
| རྣལ་རྒྱལ། | nalgyal | 0.02 |
| རྣ་རྒྱལ། | nagyal | 0.02 |
| རྣམ་རྒྱྱལ | namrgyyal | 0.02 |
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