Penjore Surname

1,691,963rd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 116 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Bhutan
Highest density in:
Bhutan

Penjore Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Penjore Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Bhutan1051:5,867278
Thailand41:17,659,586685,799
India21:383,532,6911,645,216
Afghanistan11:32,153,18360,828
Bahrain11:1,348,60810,432
Nepal11:28,480,95622,413
Switzerland11:8,212,915156,297
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

Penjore (40) may also be a first name.

Penjore Last Name Facts

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

Penjore (Tibetan: དཔལ་འབྱོར།) is held by more people in Bhutan than any other country/territory. It may also occur as:. Click here for other potential spellings of Penjore.

How Common Is The Last Name Penjore? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 1,691,963rd most commonly held last name in the world It is held by approximately 1 in 62,823,672 people. This surname is mostly found in Asia, where 98 percent of Penjore reside; 94 percent reside in South Asia and 91 percent reside in Tibeto-South Asia. It is also the 1,614,485th most frequent first name worldwide It is held by 40 people.

The surname is most commonly held in Bhutan, where it is held by 105 people, or 1 in 5,867. In Bhutan Penjore is primarily concentrated in: Thimphu District, where 39 percent are found, Samdrup Jongkhar District, where 15 percent are found and Punakha District, where 7 percent are found. Without taking into account Bhutan this last name exists in 7 countries. It is also found in Thailand, where 3 percent are found and India, where 2 percent are found.

Phonetically Similar Names

Penjore Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Penjore in the Tibetan language
དཔལ་འབྱོར།paljor91.94
དཔལ་འབྱོར་།paljor1.61
དཔལ་འབྱོར་paljor1.61
དཔལ་འབྱོརpaljor1.61
དཔལ་འབྱོལ།paljol1.61
དཔལ་འདྱོར།paladyor1.61

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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 Penjore
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