Sangye Surname
Approximately 66 people bear this surname
Sangye Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 35 | 1:593,402 | 45,326 |
| India | 8 | 1:95,883,173 | 728,828 |
| Taiwan | 7 | 1:3,349,249 | 20,155 |
| Bhutan | 5 | 1:123,208 | 891 |
| United States | 5 | 1:72,491,787 | 1,102,614 |
| Canada | 3 | 1:12,281,864 | 364,614 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Nepal | 1 | 1:28,480,956 | 22,413 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
Sangye (180) may also be a first name.
Sangye Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sangye Come From? nationality or country of origin
Sangye (Hindi: सांग्ये, Tibetan: སངས་རྒྱས་) is found most frequently in Cameroon. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Sangye click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Sangye? popularity and diffusion
The last name Sangye is the 2,352,516th most common family name internationally It is held by approximately 1 in 110,417,362 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 55 percent of Sangye are found; 53 percent are found in Central Africa and 53 percent are found in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 679,247th most commonly used forename globally. It is borne by 180 people.
The surname is most widespread in Cameroon, where it is carried by 35 people, or 1 in 593,402. In Cameroon Sangye is most prevalent in: Northwest Region, where 89 percent reside, Centre Region, where 3 percent reside and Littoral Region, where 3 percent reside. Other than Cameroon this last name is found in 8 countries. It also occurs in India, where 12 percent reside and Taiwan, where 11 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Sangye Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Sangye in the Hindi language | ||
| सांग्ये | sangye | 50 |
| संाग्यो | samagyo | 50 |
| Sangye in the Tibetan language | ||
| སངས་རྒྱས་ | sangye | 47.5 |
| སངྱས་ | sangyé | 27.5 |
| སངས་རྒྱས། | sangye | 10 |
| སངྱས། | sangyé | 5 |
| སེངྒེ་ | sengé | 5 |
| སེང་གེ་་ | sengé | 2.5 |
| སིངྒེ་ | singgé | 2.5 |
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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
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- 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 Sangye
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