Tenphel Surname

5,812,366th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 11 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Bhutan
Highest density in:
Bhutan

Tenphel Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Tenphel Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Bhutan31:205,3461,091
India31:255,688,4611,306,352
United States31:120,819,6441,331,040
China11:1,367,321,56651,149
Germany11:80,505,459560,955

Tenphel Last Name Facts

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

The surname Tenphel (Tibetan: བསྟན་འཕེལ།) is carried by more people in Bhutan than any other country or territory. It may also be rendered as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Tenphel? popularity and diffusion

The surname Tenphel is the 5,812,366th most frequently used family name throughout the world, borne by approximately 1 in 662,504,174 people. The last name is mostly found in Asia, where 64 percent of Tenphel are found; 55 percent are found in South Asia and 27 percent are found in Anglo-North America.

The last name Tenphel is most prevalent in Bhutan, where it is carried by 3 people, or 1 in 205,346. In Bhutan Tenphel is mostly found in: Lhuntse District, where 67 percent are found and Pemagatshel District, where 33 percent are found. Other than Bhutan this last name exists in 4 countries. It is also found in India, where 27 percent are found and The United States, where 27 percent are found.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Temphel8617/
Tenpele867/
Themphel801/
Tenfel7721/
Tenple774/
Tempele7147/
Tempfel7111/
Tenfeld713/
Tenffel712/
Tenpile711/
Tempeal711/
Tenfell710/
Tempelle675/

Tenphel Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Tenphel in the Tibetan language
བསྟན་འཕེལ།tenpel83.33
རྟེན་འཕེལ།tenpel16.67

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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 Tenphel
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