Samten Surname

1,385,851st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 158 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Bhutan
Highest density in:
Bhutan

Samten Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Samten Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Bhutan701:8,801335
India521:14,751,257245,013
United States221:16,475,406557,260
Nigeria71:25,306,108327,793
Canada21:18,422,796409,488
Nepal21:14,240,47817,812
Belgium11:11,496,644167,539
Malaysia11:29,494,225409,885
Singapore11:5,507,70347,049
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States11:50,218,684817,899

Samten (2,332) may also be a first name.

Samten Last Name Facts

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

The surname Samten (Tibetan: བསམ་གཏན་) is held by more people in Bhutan than any other country or territory. It can be found as:. For other potential spellings of Samten click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Samten? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 1,385,851st most widespread last name worldwide It is held by around 1 in 46,123,708 people. This last name is primarily found in Asia, where 80 percent of Samten are found; 78 percent are found in South Asia and 44 percent are found in Tibeto-South Asia. Samten is also the 154,059th most common first name globally, borne by 2,332 people.

This last name is most commonly used in Bhutan, where it is held by 70 people, or 1 in 8,801. In Bhutan Samten is primarily concentrated in: Bumthang District, where 21 percent live, Trashigang District, where 16 percent live and Lhuntse District, where 14 percent live. Other than Bhutan it exists in 8 countries. It is also common in India, where 33 percent live and The United States, where 14 percent live.

Samten Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The frequency of Samten has changed over time. In The United States the share of the population with the surname increased 2,200 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Samten Last Name Statistics demography

Samten earn somewhat more than the average income. In United States they earn 7.28% more than the national average, earning $46,292 USD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Samteen921/
Shamten921/
Samtenn921/
Santen832,007/
Samtin8311/
Jamten831/
Somten831/
Sainten77282/
Sandten77187/
Santeng77156/
Samtina7723/
Santien7717/
Santenn779/
Sianten778/
Shanten774/
Samting772/
Shamtin772/
Chamten771/
Saanten771/
Samtion771/
Camtten770/
Somteen770/
Santn732/
Shanthen716/
Shanteng714/
Semthuen712/
Chamteng711/
Shanteen711/
Santin6723,332/
Zanten67516/
Sonten67200/
Santín67111/
Santem6748/
Xanten6744/
Semtin6723/
Santén6719/
Jamtin6710/
Somtem678/
Samtynova674/
Santìn671/
Jamtem671/
Camtin671/
Samtim671/
Saintn671/
Santyn671/
Somtin671/
Comten670/
Schanthen670/

Samten Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Samten in the Tibetan language
བསམ་གཏན་samten55.02
བསམ་གཏན།samten20.27
བསམ་བསྟན་samten7.92
བསམ་རྟེན་samten3.91
བསམ་བསྟན།samten2.64
བསམ་བརྟེན་samten2.11
བསམ་བརྟན་samten1.58
བསམ་བརྟེན།samten0.84
བསམ་རྟེན།samten0.84
བསམ་གརྟན་samgaten0.63
བསམ་ཏན་samten0.53
བསམ་སྟེན་samten0.42
བསམ་བསྟེན་samten0.42
བསམ་རྟན་samten0.32
བསམ་བརྟན།samten0.32
བསམ་གཏན་་samten0.21
བསམ་རྟེནsamten0.21
བསམ་གཏནsamten0.21
བསམ་སྟེན།samten0.11
བསམབཏན་sambaten0.11
བསམ་བསྟནsamten0.11
བསམ་བཏེན་samten0.11
བསམགཏན་samgaten0.11
བསམ་སྟན་samten0.11
བསམ་བཏན་samten0.11
བསམག་ཏན།samakten0.11
བམས་བཏེན་bamten0.11
བསམ་ཏེན་samten0.11
བསམ་སྟེན༑samten0.11
བསམ་གཏན་།samten0.11
བསམོ་གཏན་samoten0.11
གསམ་གཏན་samten0.11
བསམ་ཏན།samten0.11

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