Namgyal Surname

189,141st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 2,234 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Bhutan
Highest density in:
Bhutan

Namgyal Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Namgyal Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Bhutan1,0511:58684
India8811:870,67638,173
United States1381:2,626,514158,538
Australia561:482,06636,890
Canada241:1,535,233104,339
Nepal171:1,675,3507,547
Singapore131:423,66918,211
China121:113,943,4645,994
Thailand91:7,848,705447,191
Malaysia51:5,898,845196,803
Belgium41:2,874,161111,046
France31:22,140,907385,998
Switzerland31:2,737,638105,941
Taiwan31:7,814,91541,694
Italy21:30,578,344160,757
England21:27,859,030389,889
Kuwait11:3,800,69427,187
Indonesia11:132,249,194811,426
Mexico11:124,126,205103,776
Iceland11:380,09011,096
Netherlands11:16,887,176156,465
Norway11:5,142,286129,201
Poland11:38,008,749231,653
Russia11:144,123,056881,408
Scotland11:5,353,81763,002
Fiji11:894,3914,568
Wales11:3,094,53244,023

Namgyal (1,790) may also be a first name.

Namgyal Last Name Facts

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

The surname Namgyal (Hindi: नामग्याल, Marathi: नमगेल, Tibetan: རྣམ་རྒྱལ།) is found in Bhutan more than any other country/territory. It can also be found in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Namgyal? popularity and diffusion

The last name Namgyal is the 189,141st most frequently occurring last name world-wide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 3,262,106 people. Namgyal is predominantly found in Asia, where 89 percent of Namgyal reside; 87 percent reside in South Asia and 47 percent reside in Tibeto-South Asia. Namgyal is also the 180,763rd most commonly held first name internationally, held by 1,790 people.

The last name is most commonly occurring in Bhutan, where it is borne by 1,051 people, or 1 in 586. In Bhutan Namgyal is most prevalent in: Mongar District, where 23 percent are found, Thimphu District, where 23 percent are found and Trashigang District, where 11 percent are found. Not including Bhutan it exists in 26 countries. It also occurs in India, where 39 percent are found and The United States, where 6 percent are found.

Namgyal Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those holding the Namgyal surname are 21.77% more likely to be registered Democrats than the national average, with 75% registered with the political party.

The amount Namgyal earn in different countries varies significantly. In United States they earn 1.44% less than the national average, earning $42,529 USD per year and in Canada they earn 35.33% less than the national average, earning $32,128 CAD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Namagyal9319/
Namgyail931/
Nyamgyal931/
Nmgyal921/
Namgyel861,827/
Nmagyal861/
Noumdjal5370/

Namgyal Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Namgyal in the Tibetan language
རྣམ་རྒྱལ།namgyal71.92
རྣམ་རྒྱལ་namgyal24.25
རྣམ་རྒྱས།namgyé2.03
རྣམ་རྒྱས་namgyé0.6
རྣམས་རྒྱལ།namgyal0.48
རྣམ་རྒྱལ་།namgyal0.24
རྣྨ་རྒྱལ།rnmagyal0.12
རྣམ་རྒྱ།namgya0.12
འཕྲིན་ལས་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་trinlénamgyal0.12
ནག་འཕེལ།nakpel0.12
Namgyal in the Hindi language
नामग्यालnamagyala71.43
नमग्यालnamagyala7.14
नमगयलnamagayala7.14
नैमग्यौलnaimagyaula7.14
नामज्ञालnamajnala7.14
Namgyal in the Marathi language
नमगेलnamagela50
नामग्यालnamagyala50

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Footnotes

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