Phuntsho Surname

84,085th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 5,749 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Bhutan
Highest density in:
Bhutan

Phuntsho Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Phuntsho Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Bhutan5,6811:10820
India261:29,502,515369,827
Thailand121:5,886,529390,733
United States61:60,409,8221,028,827
United Arab Emirates41:2,290,56860,372
Australia41:6,748,925181,100
Malaysia21:14,747,112316,340
Canada21:18,422,796409,488
Iceland11:380,09011,096
Germany11:80,505,459560,955
Italy11:61,156,688199,583
Japan11:127,844,29373,547
Laos11:6,588,3231,961
Mongolia11:2,825,28917,010
Nepal11:28,480,95622,413
Norway11:5,142,286129,201
Singapore11:5,507,70347,049
South Africa11:54,177,704343,732
South Korea11:51,240,2568,015
Sudan11:37,510,19514,259

Phuntsho (5,603) may also be a first name.

Phuntsho Last Name Facts

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

The surname Phuntsho (Tibetan: ཕུན་ཚོགས།) is found most in Bhutan. It can also occur as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Phuntsho? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 84,085th most numerous surname worldwide, held by approximately 1 in 1,267,620 people. Phuntsho is primarily found in Asia, where 100 percent of Phuntsho live; 99 percent live in South Asia and 99 percent live in Tibeto-South Asia. It is also the 89,481st most commonly occurring first name on earth, held by 5,603 people.

It is most commonly used in Bhutan, where it is carried by 5,681 people, or 1 in 108. In Bhutan it is most numerous in: Trashigang District, where 17 percent reside, Thimphu District, where 16 percent reside and Mongar District, where 9 percent reside. Not including Bhutan Phuntsho is found in 19 countries. It also occurs in India, where 0 percent reside and Thailand, where 0 percent reside.

Phuntsho Last Name Statistics demography

Phuntsho earn more than fifty percent more than the average income. In United States they earn 85.89% more than the national average, earning $80,208 USD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Phuentsho9455/
Phuntso93836/
Puntsho931/
Phontsho8811/
Phintsho882/
Phountso881/
Puntso8647/
Pontsho80615/
Pountso8031/
Phuncho8012/
Phintso809/
Phontso803/
Puntsah801/
Puntcho801/
Phunchoo751/
Pontso7172/
Puncho7121/
Phunzo719/
Punchoo67152/
Punchoi67111/
Phuncha6790/
Ponts'o6774/
Phontsa675/
Pontsha673/
Pont'so672/
Feuntso671/
Puntsaa671/

Phuntsho Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Phuntsho in the Tibetan language
ཕུན་ཚོགས།püntsok63.1
ཕུན་ཚོགས་püntsok34.55
ཕུན་ཚོགསpüntsok0.44
ཕུན་ཚོགས་།püntsok0.28
ཕུན་མཚོགས།püntsok0.18
ཕུན་ཆོགས་pünchok0.13
པུན་ཚོགས།püntsok0.09
ཕུན་ཚོག།püntsok0.07
ཕུན་ཚཽགས།püntsauk0.07
ཕུག་ཚོགས།puktsok0.07
ཕུན་མཚོག།püntsok0.06
ཕུན་མཆོག།pünchok0.06
ཕུད་ཚོགས་pütsok0.06
ཕུན་མཚོག་püntsok0.06
ཕུན་ཚོག་püntsok0.06
ཕུན་མཚོ།püntso0.06
ཕུན་ཆོགས།pünchok0.06
ཕུན་ཚོགས།་püntsok0.06
ཕུན་མཚོགས་püntsok0.06
ཕུན་མཆོག་pünchok0.04
ཚུན་ཚོགས།tsüntsok0.04
ཕུན་མཚོ་püntso0.04
ཕུན་ཚཽག།püntsauk0.04
ཕུག་ཚོགས་puktsok0.04
ཕུན་ཚོགགས་püntsogak0.02
ཕུན་ཚོོགས་püntsok0.02
བཕྱུན་ཆོགས།bachünchok0.02
ཕུན་ཆོག་pünchok0.02
ཕུན་ཛོགས་pündzok0.02
ཕན་ཚོགས།pentsok0.02
ཕུན་ཚོངས་püntsong0.02
ཕ྄ན་ཚོགས།pntsok0.02
ཕུན་ཚོགས་་püntsok0.02
ཕུན་ཚོགས༑püntsok0.02
ཕུར་ཚོགས།purtsok0.02
ཕུད་ཚོག།pütsok0.02
ཕུན་ཚཽགས་püntsauk0.02
པུན་ཚོགས་püntsok0.02
ཕུནཚོགས།puntsok0.02
མིན་རྒྱུར་ཕུན་ཚོགས་mingyurpüntsok0.02
ཕུན་རྪོགས།pünrtsok0.02
ཕུན་མཆོགས།pünchok0.02

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