Phuntso Surname

416,195th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 836 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
India
Highest density in:
Bhutan

Phuntso Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Phuntso Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
India8321:921,95439,781
Bhutan21:308,0201,264
Brazil11:214,074,3321,693,628
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

Phuntso (620) may also be a first name.

Phuntso Last Name Facts

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

Phuntso (Tibetan: ཕུན་ཚོགས་) has its highest incidence in India. It can appear as:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Phuntso? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 416,195th most frequent last name throughout the world It is held by approximately 1 in 8,717,160 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Asia, where 100 percent of Phuntso live; 100 percent live in South Asia and 100 percent live in Indo-South Asia. Phuntso is also the 334,926th most frequently occurring first name on earth, held by 620 people.

This last name is most widespread in India, where it is carried by 832 people, or 1 in 921,954. In India Phuntso is most numerous in: Arunachal Pradesh, where 100 percent live, Delhi, where 0 percent live and Maharashtra, where 0 percent live. Other than India Phuntso exists in 3 countries. It also occurs in Bhutan, where 0 percent live and Brazil, where 0 percent live.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Phuntsho935,749/
Phountso931/
Puntso9247/
Phuentsho8855/
Pountso8631/
Phintso869/
Phontso863/
Puntsho861/
Phontsho8011/
Phintsho802/
Pontso7772/
Phunzo779/
Pontsho71615/
Ponts'o7174/
Phuncho7112/
Phontsa715/
Pont'so712/
Puntcho711/
Puntsah711/
Feuntso711/
Puntsaa711/
Punzo675,371/
Putyntsa6772/
Pountzas6745/
Punco6733/
Putintsa674/
Punčo672/
Fountsou671/
Phunchoo671/

Phuntso Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Phuntso in the Tibetan language
ཕུན་ཚོགས་püntsok60
ཕུན་ཚོགས།püntsok40

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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 Phuntso
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