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

The last name Namgyel (Tibetan: རྣམ་རྒྱལ།) occurs most in Bhutan. It may also occur as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Namgyel? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 222,993rd most commonly used family name in the world, borne by approximately 1 in 3,988,805 people. The surname 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 frequently occurring first name at a global level It is held by 2,223 people.

The surname is most frequently held in Bhutan, where it is borne by 1,787 people, or 1 in 345. In Bhutan Namgyel is most numerous in: Thimphu District, where 32 percent reside, Trashigang District, where 14 percent reside and Wangdue Phodrang District, where 13 percent reside. Outside of Bhutan this surname exists in 8 countries. It is also found in India, where 1 percent reside and Thailand, where 1 percent reside.

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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