Namgyel Surname

222,993rd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 1,827 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Bhutan
Highest density in:
Bhutan

Namgyel Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Namgyel Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Bhutan1,7871:34562
India151:51,137,692512,385
Thailand101:7,063,834426,148
United States61:60,409,8221,028,827
Australia31:8,998,567200,784
Taiwan31:7,814,91541,694
Bangladesh11:159,356,77326,077
England11:55,718,059489,080
Malaysia11:29,494,225409,885

Namgyel (2,223) may also be a first name.

Namgyel Last Name Facts

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

Namgyel (Tibetan: རྣམ་རྒྱལ།) is more commonly found in Bhutan than any other country/territory. It may occur as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Namgyel? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 222,993rd most frequently held last name world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 3,988,805 people. It is primarily found in Asia, where 99 percent of Namgyel live; 99 percent live in South Asia and 98 percent live in Tibeto-South Asia. It is also the 158,556th most commonly used first name at a global level It is held by 2,223 people.

The last name is most widespread in Bhutan, where it is held by 1,787 people, or 1 in 345. In Bhutan Namgyel is primarily concentrated in: Thimphu District, where 32 percent live, Trashigang District, where 14 percent live and Wangdue Phodrang District, where 13 percent live. Barring Bhutan Namgyel occurs in 8 countries. It also occurs in India, where 1 percent live and Thailand, where 1 percent live.

Namgyel Last Name Statistics demography

Namgyel earn notably more than the average income. In United States they earn 22.15% more than the national average, earning $52,708 USD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Namgyal862,234/
Namagyal8019/
Namgyail801/
Nyamgyal801/
Nmgyal771/
Nmagyal711/

Namgyel Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Namgyel in the Tibetan language
རྣམ་རྒྱལ།namgyal59.03
རྣམ་རྒྱལ་namgyal35.57
རྣམ་རྒྱས།namgyé1.55
རྣམ་རྒྱས་namgyé1.37
རྣམ་རྒྱལ་།namgyal0.62
རྣམས་རྒྱལ།namgyal0.5
རྣམས་རྒྱལ་namgyal0.43
རྣམས་རྒྱས།namgyé0.19
རྣམས་རྒྱས་namgyé0.12
ནམས་རྒྱས་namgyé0.12
རྣམ་རྒྱལ་་namgyal0.06
རྣམ་རྒྱལས་namgyalé0.06
རྣྨ་རྒྱལ།rnmagyal0.06
རྣམ་རྒྱལ༔namgyal0.06
རྣྡམ་རྒྱལ།rndamgyal0.06
རྣ་རྒྱལ་nagyal0.06
རྣམ་རྒྱེལ་namgyel0.06
རནམ་རྒྱལ་ranamgyal0.06

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