Tenzin Surname

52,282nd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 9,794 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Bhutan
Highest density in:
Bhutan

Tenzin Surname User-submission:

Tenzin or Tenzing is a Tibetan surname, which means 'holder of Buddha Dharma'.

Tenzin Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Bhutan7,9681:7715
India1,3721:559,08627,431
United States1761:2,059,426131,385
Thailand771:917,381143,219
Russia411:3,515,196179,721
Belgium321:359,27039,406
Canada241:1,535,233104,339
Malaysia171:1,734,95470,664
Nepal141:2,034,3548,267
China131:105,178,5825,529
Kyrgyzstan71:853,23652,732
Australia71:3,856,529135,538
Spain61:7,792,006100,283
Switzerland41:2,053,22997,179
England41:13,929,515290,718
Norway41:1,285,57269,185
United Arab Emirates41:2,290,56860,372
Italy31:20,385,563143,117
France31:22,140,907385,998
Czechia31:3,544,490144,714
Brazil31:71,358,111770,017
Israel21:4,278,817136,311
Argentina21:21,371,707253,176
Kazakhstan11:17,682,496204,010
Mexico11:124,126,205103,776
American Samoa11:55,7583,072
Netherlands11:16,887,176156,465
Portugal11:10,418,24125,048
Indonesia11:132,249,194811,426
Scotland11:5,353,81763,002
Finland11:5,496,70284,025

Tenzin (17,464) may also be a first name.

Tenzin Surname Meaning

User-submitted Reference

Tenzin or Tenzing is a Tibetan surname, which means 'holder of Buddha Dharma'.

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Tenzin Last Name Facts

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

Tenzin (Hindi: तेन्जीन, Marathi: तेन्जीन, Oriya: େତନଜିନ୍, Russian: Тензин, Tibetan: བསྟན་འཛིན།) is more commonly found in Bhutan than any other country/territory. It can appear as a variant:. For other potential spellings of Tenzin click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Tenzin? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 52,282nd most widespread last name world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 744,083 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Asia, where 97 percent of Tenzin are found; 96 percent are found in South Asia and 81 percent are found in Tibeto-South Asia. Tenzin is also the 41,715th most widespread first name on earth It is held by 17,464 people.

It is most frequently used in Bhutan, where it is carried by 7,968 people, or 1 in 77. In Bhutan it is mostly concentrated in: Trashigang District, where 17 percent reside, Thimphu District, where 16 percent reside and Mongar District, where 10 percent reside. Not including Bhutan it is found in 30 countries. It also occurs in India, where 14 percent reside and The United States, where 2 percent reside.

Tenzin Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those bearing the Tenzin last name are 22.96% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than The US average, with 76.19% registered with the party.

The amount Tenzin earn in different countries varies significantly. In Norway they earn 5.3% less than the national average, earning 327,742 kr per year; in United States they earn 3.38% less than the national average, earning $41,689 USD per year and in Canada they earn 32.99% less than the national average, earning $33,294 CAD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Tenzing92467/
Tenczina869/
Tenjin831,215/
Tensin83607/
Tengin8366/
Tenzen8330/
Tenzyn831/
Tenxin831/
Tencin831/
Temzin831/
Tenzng831/
Tnzisn831/
Tenshin772,072/
Tensing77404/
Tenszen7738/
Tenjing7731/
Tiensin775/
Tenging775/
Tenchin774/
Tinzhin774/
Thensin774/
Thengin773/
Tenzyna773/
Tenczyn773/
Tentzen771/
Tehnzen771/
Tentsin771/
Tenzeng771/
Tenzeen771/
Taensin771/
Tensingh7155/
Tenchina7115/
Tentsing7112/
Tenshina7110/
Tinzhina714/
Thiensin714/
Thaensin712/
Tientsin712/
Tenczyna711/
Thenchin711/
Tinnzing710/
Thinzing710/
Tensen67973/
Tengen67945/
Tengim6784/
Tünjin6765/
Temgin6733/
Tenzem6726/
Tensén6713/
Tensyn6711/
Temsin679/
Tenjen674/
Temjin674/
Tentching671/
Tenjim671/
Tientcien671/
Thngin671/

Tenzin Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Tenzin in the Oriya language
େତନଜିନ୍etanajin66.67
େଟନଜିନ୍etanajin33.33
Tenzin in the Tibetan language
བསྟན་འཛིན།tendzin59.15
བསྟན་འཛིན་tendzin37.89
བསྟེན་འཛིན།tendzin0.42
བསྟེན་འཛིན་tendzin0.26
བསྟན་འཇིན།tenjin0.24
བསྟན་འཇིན་tenjin0.23
བསྟན་འཛིན་།tendzin0.22
བསྟན་འཛིནtendzin0.21
སྟེན་འཛིན་tendzin0.09
སྟེན་འཛིན།tendzin0.06
སྟན་འཛིན་tendzin0.06
བསྟེན་འཇིན།tenjin0.05
བསྟན་ten0.05
འཛིན།dzin0.05
རྟེན་འཛིན་tendzin0.04
བསྟན་འཚིན།tentsin0.04
མསྟན་འཛིན།matendzin0.04
བསྟན་འཛྀན།tendz-in0.04
བརྟེན་འཛིན་tendzin0.04
སྟན་འཛིན།tendzin0.04
བསཏན་འཛིན་satendzin0.04
བསྟིན་འཛིན་tindzin0.03
བསྟད་འཛིན།tédzin0.03
བསྟད་འཛིན་tédzin0.03
བསྟན་འཚིན་tentsin0.03
སྟཻན་འཟྀནtainaz-in0.03
བསྟེན་འཇིན་tenjin0.03
བསྟིན་འཛིན།tindzin0.03
སབྟན་འཛིན།sabtendzin0.01
བསྟན་འཛིན།།tendzin0.01
བལྟན་འཛིན་tendzin0.01
བསྟན་ཟཛིན་tenzadzin0.01
བསྡན་འཛིན་dendzin0.01
བཏན་འཛིན་tendzin0.01
བསྟན་འཟིན་tenazin0.01
ལསྟན་འཛིན།latendzin0.01
བསྟན་འཛིན།་tendzin0.01
བརྟེན་འཛིན།tendzin0.01
སྟཻན་འཟྀན།tainaz-in0.01
བསྟནའཛིན་tanadzin0.01
བསྟན་མཛིན་tendzin0.01
བསྟྣ་འཛིན།bastnadzin0.01
བསྟན་འཛིདན།tendziden0.01
རྟ་མགྲིན་tamdrin0.01
ཅསྟན་འཛིན།chatendzin0.01
མསྟན་འཛིན་matendzin0.01
རྣམ་རྒྱས་namgyé0.01
བསྟན་ཡཛིན།tenyadzin0.01
བསྟན་བཛིན་tenbadzin0.01
བསྟོན་འཛིན།töndzin0.01
བསྟན་འཛིང་tendzing0.01
འསྟན་འཛིན།atendzin0.01
ཀུན་བཟང་kunzang0.01
བསྟན་འཛྀན་tendz-in0.01
བསྟ་འཛིན་tadzin0.01
བཧྟན་འཛིན།bahtendzin0.01
རྡོ་རྗེ།dorjé0.01
བརྟན་འཛིན་tendzin0.01
སྟཻན་འཛྀན།taindz-in0.01
བསྟན་ཡཛིན་tenyadzin0.01
བསྟན་པ་tenpa0.01
བསྟོན་འཛིན་töndzin0.01
བསྟན་འཛན།tendzen0.01
འསྟན་འཛིན་།atendzin0.01
བསྟན་འཛྀནtendz-in0.01
བཧྟན་འཛིན་bahtendzin0.01
རྟེན་འཛིན།tendzin0.01
བཏན་འཛིན།tendzin0.01
སྟཻན་བཟྀན།tainz-in0.01
བསྟན་འརྫིན་tenadzin0.01
བསྟན་འཛངན་tendzangen0.01
Tenzin in the Marathi language
तेन्जीनtenjina30.43
तेनजीtenaji21.74
तेन्झीनtenjhina21.74
तेनिझनtenijhana13.04
तेनिंसगteninsaga8.7
तेन्सीनtensina4.35
Tenzin in the Hindi language
तेन्जीनtenjina15.79
तेनजिनtenajina15.79
तेनजीनtenajina10.53
तेनजीगtenajiga10.53
तेनजेनtenajena10.53
तेनजिंगtenajinga5.26
तेनजिtenaji5.26
तेनजि़नtenajina5.26
तेंजिनtenjina5.26
तेन्जिनtenjina5.26
टेनजिनtenajina5.26
तेनजिंनtenajinna5.26
Tenzin in the Russian language
Тензинtenzin-

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