Sangchu Surname

1,612,213th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 125 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Thailand
Highest density in:
Bhutan

Sangchu Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Sangchu Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Thailand1201:588,653100,315
Bhutan41:154,010967
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

Sangchu (250) may also be a first name.

Sangchu Last Name Facts

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

Sangchu (Tibetan: གསང་ཅུ།) occurs more in Thailand more than any other country or territory. It can also appear as a variant:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Sangchu? popularity and diffusion

The surname Sangchu is the 1,612,213th most commonly occurring last name at a global level, borne by around 1 in 58,300,367 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Asia, where 99 percent of Sangchu reside; 96 percent reside in Southeast Asia and 96 percent reside in Tai-Asia. Sangchu is also the 563,826th most commonly held first name throughout the world, borne by 250 people.

Sangchu is most commonly held in Thailand, where it is borne by 120 people, or 1 in 588,653. In Thailand Sangchu is most frequent in: Nonthaburi Province, where 44 percent reside, Pattani Province, where 25 percent reside and Bangkok, where 8 percent reside. Besides Thailand this last name occurs in 2 countries. It is also common in Bhutan, where 3 percent reside and The United States, where 1 percent reside.

Phonetically Similar Names

Sangchu Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Sangchu in the Tibetan language
གསང་ཅུ།sangchu22.09
གསང་བཅུ།sangchu17.44
སངས་ཅུ།sangchu9.3
གསང་ཅུ་sangchu6.98
གསང་ཅུང་།sangchung5.81
སྲང་བཅུ།sangchu5.81
སངས་ཅུང་།sangchung4.65
སངས་བཅུ།sangchu4.65
གསང་ཆུ།sangchu3.49
སངས་ཆུ།sangchu2.33
སྲང་ཅུ།sangchu2.33
སངས་ཅུ་sangchu2.33
གསང་ཅུང་sangchung1.16
སགང་བཅུ།sagangchu1.16
གསང་བཅུ་sangchu1.16
བསང་ཅུང།sangchung1.16
གསང་བཅ།sangcha1.16
གསངས་ཅུ་sangchu1.16
སངས་བཅུ་sangchu1.16
གསང་་ཅུ།sangchu1.16
གསང་སྐྱུགས།sangkyuk1.16
སངས་ཆུང་sangchung1.16
སགས་ཅུང།sakchung1.16

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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 Sangchu
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