Pelden Surname
Approximately 2,776 people bear this surname
Pelden Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bhutan | 2,752 | 1:224 | 41 |
| India | 6 | 1:127,844,230 | 863,365 |
| Taiwan | 3 | 1:7,814,915 | 41,694 |
| Thailand | 3 | 1:23,546,115 | 908,588 |
| Australia | 2 | 1:13,497,850 | 222,987 |
| Malaysia | 2 | 1:14,747,112 | 316,340 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Mongolia | 1 | 1:2,825,289 | 17,010 |
| Nepal | 1 | 1:28,480,956 | 22,413 |
| Sri Lanka | 1 | 1:20,808,560 | 18,521 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 1:16,739,561 | 595,711 |
Pelden (1,640) may also be a first name.
Pelden Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Pelden Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Pelden (Hindi: पेलदेन, Tibetan: དཔལ་སྒྲོན།) is found most frequently in Bhutan. It may also appear as:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Pelden? popularity and diffusion
The last name Pelden is the 157,549th most widespread surname on a worldwide basis, held by around 1 in 2,625,197 people. The last name is predominantly found in Asia, where 100 percent of Pelden live; 99 percent live in South Asia and 99 percent live in Tibeto-South Asia. Pelden is also the 190,371st most widespread first name world-wide, borne by 1,640 people.
The surname Pelden is most commonly used in Bhutan, where it is held by 2,752 people, or 1 in 224. In Bhutan it is most frequent in: Thimphu District, where 26 percent live, Mongar District, where 10 percent live and Trashigang District, where 9 percent live. Besides Bhutan it exists in 12 countries. It is also found in India, where 0 percent live and Taiwan, where 0 percent live.
Pelden Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Pelden has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Pelden surname fell 33 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Phonetically Similar Names
Pelden Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Pelden in the Hindi language | ||
| पेलदेन | peladena | - |
| Pelden in the Tibetan language | ||
| དཔལ་སྒྲོན། | paldrön | 66.58 |
| དཔལ་ལྡན་ | palden | 16.86 |
| དཔལ་ལྡན། | palden | 13.36 |
| དཔལ་སྒྲོན་ | paldrön | 2.17 |
| དཔལ་ལྡན | palden | 0.25 |
| དཔལ་སྒྲཽན། | paldraun | 0.1 |
| དཔལ་ལྡན་། | palden | 0.1 |
| དཔལ་སྒྲོན།། | paldrön | 0.1 |
| དཕལ་ལྡན་ | dapalden | 0.05 |
| དཔལ་ལྡེན་ | palden | 0.05 |
| དཔལསྒྲོན་ | paldrön | 0.05 |
| དཔལ་ལྡཔ། | paldapa | 0.05 |
| དཔལ་སྡན། | palden | 0.05 |
| དཔལ་དོན | paldön | 0.05 |
| དཔལ་སྒྲོན | paldrön | 0.05 |
| དཔལ་སྒྲེན། | paldren | 0.05 |
| དཕལ་ལྡན། | dapalden | 0.05 |
| དཔལ་སྒོན། | palgön | 0.05 |
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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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