Pelzang Surname
Approximately 287 people bear this surname
Pelzang Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bhutan | 279 | 1:2,208 | 164 |
| India | 2 | 1:383,532,691 | 1,645,216 |
| Thailand | 2 | 1:35,319,172 | 966,191 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1:10,418,241 | 25,048 |
Pelzang (111) may also be a first name.
Pelzang Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Pelzang Come From? nationality or country of origin
Pelzang (Tibetan: དཔལ་བཟང་།) is found in Bhutan more than any other country/territory. It can occur in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Pelzang? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 921,780th most frequent surname worldwide, borne by around 1 in 25,392,146 people. Pelzang occurs mostly in Asia, where 99 percent of Pelzang reside; 98 percent reside in South Asia and 97 percent reside in Tibeto-South Asia. It is also the 890,531st most frequently held first name throughout the world, held by 111 people.
It is most widely held in Bhutan, where it is carried by 279 people, or 1 in 2,208. In Bhutan it is primarily concentrated in: Trashigang District, where 24 percent are found, Thimphu District, where 19 percent are found and Pemagatshel District, where 11 percent are found. Outside of Bhutan it exists in 6 countries. It is also found in India, where 1 percent are found and Thailand, where 1 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Pelzang Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Pelzang in the Tibetan language | ||
| དཔལ་བཟང་། | palzang | 80.31 |
| དཔལ་བཟང། | palzang | 11.97 |
| དཔལ་བཟང་ | palzang | 6.95 |
| དཔར་བཟང་། | parzang | 0.39 |
| སྐལ་བཟང་། | kalzang | 0.39 |
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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
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Pelzang
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