Pethey Surname
Approximately 4 people bear this surname
Pethey Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bhutan | 2 | 1:308,020 | 1,264 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Lithuania | 1 | 1:3,034,588 | 47,401 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 9 | 1:5,579,854 | 232,921 |
Pethey (4) may also be a first name.
Pethey Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Pethey Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Pethey (Tibetan: དཔལ་ཐད།) has its highest incidence in Bhutan. It may appear as:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Pethey? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 8,968,613th most frequently held last name world-wide, held by around 1 in 1,821,886,479 people. The last name Pethey is predominantly found in Asia, where 50 percent of Pethey are found; 50 percent are found in South Asia and 50 percent are found in Tibeto-South Asia. Pethey is also the 6,192,526th most frequently occurring given name world-wide, borne by 4 people.
The last name is most frequent in Bhutan, where it is borne by 2 people, or 1 in 308,020. In Bhutan it is most numerous in: Mongar District, where 50 percent live and Zhemgang District, where 50 percent live. Without taking into account Bhutan it is found in 2 countries. It also occurs in The Ivory Coast, where 25 percent live and Lithuania, where 25 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Pethey Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Pethey in the Tibetan language | ||
| དཔལ་ཐད། | palté | 16.67 |
| དཔེ་ཐེ། | pété | 16.67 |
| དཔལ་ཐེ། | palté | 16.67 |
| དཔལ་ཐིག། | paltik | 16.67 |
| དཔལ་ཐི། | palti | 16.67 |
| དཔྱལ་མཐེ། | chalté | 16.67 |
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Pethey
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