Thubten Surname

4,427,875th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 20 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
India
Highest density in:
Bhutan

Thubten Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Thubten Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
India61:127,844,230863,365
United States51:72,491,7871,102,614
Bhutan41:154,010967
China11:1,367,321,56651,149
Russia11:144,123,056881,408
Spain11:46,752,036156,870
Switzerland11:8,212,915156,297
Thailand11:70,638,3451,175,915

Thubten (127) may also be a first name.

Thubten Last Name Facts

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

The surname Thubten (Tibetan: ཐུགས་རྟེན་) is found most frequently in India. It can appear in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Thubten? popularity and diffusion

The surname Thubten is the 4,427,875th most frequently held family name globally, held by approximately 1 in 364,377,296 people. The surname is predominantly found in Asia, where 60 percent of Thubten live; 50 percent live in South Asia and 30 percent live in Indo-South Asia. It is also the 825,494th most frequently occurring first name world-wide. It is borne by 127 people.

The last name is most widely held in India, where it is carried by 6 people, or 1 in 127,844,230. In India it is most common in: Arunachal Pradesh, where 83 percent live and West Bengal, where 17 percent live. Without taking into account India it exists in 7 countries. It is also common in The United States, where 25 percent live and Bhutan, where 20 percent live.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Thubthien884/
Thupten86139/
Tubtien861/
Tubtin771/
Thupthien7515/
Thipten716/
Thubtim715/
Thupthn711/
Tubting711/
Tuptuen711/
Thoopthen631/
Tubtim62896/
Tuptin6222/
Tipten624/
Tuptina577/
Thuptim572/
Tiptn502/

Thubten Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Thubten in the Tibetan language
ཐུགས་རྟེན་tukten34.38
ཐུབ་བསྟན་tubten23.44
ཐུགས་རྟེན།tukten10.94
ཐུགས་བསྟན་tukten7.81
ཐུགས་བརྟེན་tukten7.81
ཐུབ་རྟེན་tubten4.69
ཐུབ་བསྟན།tubten3.13
ཐུགས་བརྟེན།tukten3.13
ཐུགས་བསྟན།tukten1.56
ཐུབ་བརྟན།tubten1.56
ཐུབ་རྟེནtubten1.56

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  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Thubten
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