Penjor Surname

85,715th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 5,626 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Bhutan
Highest density in:
Bhutan

Penjor Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Penjor Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Bhutan5,5511:11121
India341:22,560,747316,052
Thailand161:4,414,897343,519
United States81:45,307,367917,113
Indonesia31:44,083,065698,220
Australia21:13,497,850222,987
Malaysia21:14,747,112316,340
Nepal21:14,240,47817,812
Philippines21:50,619,112341,003
Canada11:36,845,591464,108
Egypt11:91,935,754132,737
England11:55,718,059489,080
Japan11:127,844,29373,547
Singapore11:5,507,70347,049
Taiwan11:23,444,74693,622

Penjor (1,764) may also be a first name.

Penjor Last Name Facts

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

Penjor (Arabic: بنجور, Tibetan: དཔལ་འབྱོར།) is more commonly found in Bhutan than any other country or territory. It can appear as a variant:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Penjor? popularity and diffusion

It is the 85,715th most frequently occurring family name internationally, borne by approximately 1 in 1,295,333 people. The surname occurs mostly in Asia, where 100 percent of Penjor are found; 99 percent are found in South Asia and 99 percent are found in Tibeto-South Asia. Penjor is also the 182,250th most commonly occurring first name in the world, borne by 1,764 people.

It is most widespread in Bhutan, where it is borne by 5,551 people, or 1 in 111. In Bhutan Penjor is mostly found in: Thimphu District, where 27 percent are found, Paro District, where 12 percent are found and Wangdue Phodrang District, where 8 percent are found. Beside Bhutan this last name occurs in 14 countries. It is also common in India, where 1 percent are found and Thailand, where 0 percent are found.

Penjor Last Name Statistics demography

Penjor earn somewhat less than the average income. In United States they earn 7.59% less than the national average, earning $39,875 USD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Penjore92116/
Pinjor83366/
Penhor83114/
Panjor83113/
Pensor8322/
Pegnor8319/
Penjur837/
Penzor837/
Penior835/
Penjar834/
Ponjor831/
Penszor7737/
Penjare772/
Penzort772/
Penhoor772/
Penshor771/
Penayor771/
Pinjore771/
Phenhor771/
Peenjar771/
Penzior771/
Penoyor770/
Pendzior7115/
Peignoir711/
Penschor711/
Pinjar6710,139/
Penzar67464/
Pinior67221/
Pencar67163/
Pensar67107/
Panjar6788/
Pinhor6777/
Penhar6737/
Pinzor6725/
Pynzor679/
Pignor675/
Penear673/
Panior673/
Pnjare672/
Pinsor672/
Pinjur672/
Pegnar672/
Penyar671/
Pineor671/
Penzár671/
Pincor671/
Pnjarh671/
Peanchorp671/
Penyur670/

Penjor Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Penjor in the Tibetan language
དཔལ་འབྱོར།paljor95.15
དཔལ་འབྱོར་paljor3.75
དཔལ་འབྱོརpaljor0.14
སྤེན་འབྱོར་penjor0.1
དཔལ་འབྱོར་།paljor0.1
དཔལའབྱོར།palajor0.07
དབལ་འབྱོར།waljor0.07
དཔལ་འབྱོར།།paljor0.03
དཔལ་་འབྱོར།paljor0.03
དཔལ་བྱཽར།paljaur0.03
དཔལ་འབྱོར།་paljor0.03
ནོར་བུ།norbu0.03
དཔའ་འབྱོར་pajor0.03
དཔལ་ཡབྱོར།palyajor0.03
དཔལ་བྱོར།paljor0.03
དཔལ་འབྱོང་།paljong0.03
དཔལ་འབྱཽར།paljaur0.03
དཔལ་བྱོར་paljor0.03
དཕལ་འབྱོར།dapaljor0.03
དཔལ་འཕྱོར།palchor0.03
དཔལ་འབྱོོལ།paljol0.03
དཔལ་དབྱོར།palyor0.03
དཔལ་འབྱོར་་paljor0.03
དཕལ་འབྱོར་dapaljor0.03
དཔལ་འགྱོར།palgyor0.03
Penjor in the Arabic language
بنجورbnjwr-

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Footnotes

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