Peldon Surname

190,695th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 2,212 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Bhutan
Highest density in:
Bhutan

Peldon Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Peldon Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Bhutan2,1391:28854
Israel401:213,94120,390
United States121:30,204,911765,334
Philippines51:20,247,645262,352
Australia41:6,748,925181,100
Thailand41:17,659,586685,799
India31:255,688,4611,306,352
England21:27,859,030389,889
Canada11:36,845,591464,108
Malaysia11:29,494,225409,885
Netherlands11:16,887,176156,465
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States31:16,739,561595,711

Peldon (544) may also be a first name.

Peldon Last Name Facts

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

The last name Peldon (Tibetan: དཔལ་སྒྲོན།) has its highest incidence in Bhutan. It may be rendered as a variant:. For other possible spellings of Peldon click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Peldon? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 190,695th most prevalent last name worldwide It is held by around 1 in 3,294,551 people. The surname is predominantly found in Asia, where 99 percent of Peldon reside; 97 percent reside in South Asia and 97 percent reside in Tibeto-South Asia. It is also the 361,218th most frequently held forename worldwide. It is borne by 544 people.

Peldon is most widespread in Bhutan, where it is held by 2,139 people, or 1 in 288. In Bhutan it is most prevalent in: Thimphu District, where 23 percent live, Trashigang District, where 15 percent live and Lhuntse District, where 10 percent live. Barring Bhutan it exists in 10 countries. It is also common in Israel, where 2 percent live and The United States, where 1 percent live.

Peldon Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The occurrence of Peldon has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people carrying the Peldon surname grew 400 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Paeldon92185/
Peldoen925/
Peglidon861/
Peldan8367/
Peldán8313/
Peldun838/
Pyldon833/
Pildon830/
Paeldan7746/
Pildoyn771/
Peldhousen754/
Pldun731/
Pildan673/
Pldane671/
Pledank621/
Pildanova5310/
Pildam501/

Peldon Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Peldon in the Tibetan language
དཔལ་སྒྲོན།paldrön97.21
དཔལ་སྒྲོན་paldrön1.03
དཔལ་ལྡན།palden0.51
དཔལ་ལྒྲོན།pallgrön0.22
དཔལ་སྒྱོན།palgyön0.15
དཔལ་སྒྲོན་མོ།paldrönmo0.07
དཔལ་སྒོན།palgön0.07
དབང་མོ།wangmo0.07
དཔལ་མོ།palmo0.07
དཔལ་སགྲོན།palsadrön0.07
དཔལ་སྒྲཽན།paldraun0.07
དཔནལ་སྒྲོན།panaldrön0.07
དཔལ་སྒྲོནpaldrön0.07
དཔལ་སྒྲོན།།paldrön0.07
དཔ་ལ་སྒྲོན།paladrön0.07
དཔལ་ལྡན་palden0.07
དཔལ་སྒྡྲོན།palsgdrön0.07

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Footnotes

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