Tobden Surname

1,453,389th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 147 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Bhutan
Highest density in:
Bhutan

Tobden Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Tobden Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Bhutan1231:5,008262
India231:33,350,669396,143
Thailand11:70,638,3451,175,915

Tobden (84) may also be a first name.

Tobden Last Name Facts

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

The last name Tobden (Tibetan: སྟོབས་ལྡན།) is borne by more people in Bhutan than any other country/territory. It may be found as:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Tobden? popularity and diffusion

It is the 1,453,389th most commonly occurring last name internationally, held by approximately 1 in 49,575,142 people. It is mostly found in Asia, where 100 percent of Tobden are found; 99 percent are found in South Asia and 84 percent are found in Tibeto-South Asia. It is also the 1,046,220th most numerous first name on earth. It is borne by 84 people.

It is most frequently occurring in Bhutan, where it is held by 123 people, or 1 in 5,008. In Bhutan it is primarily concentrated in: Thimphu District, where 41 percent reside, Bumthang District, where 13 percent reside and Sarpang District, where 8 percent reside. Excluding Bhutan this last name exists in 2 countries. It also occurs in India, where 16 percent reside and Thailand, where 1 percent reside.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Topden8388/
Towden832/
Tebden831/
Topdent771/
Thubden771/
Tabdien771/
Towdn731/
Thabdeen711/
Toubdion711/
Tüvden67503/
Tubdenova6735/
Tavden674/
Towdin673/
Tuvden672/
Tawdeen6253/
Thupden627/
Tubdina621/
Tapdin5022/
Tövdön504/

Tobden Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Tobden in the Tibetan language
སྟོབས་ལྡན།tobden74.73
སྟོབས་ལྡན་tobden19.78
སྟོབ་ལྡན།tobden2.2
སྟོབ་ལྡན་tobden2.2
ལྟོབས་ལྡན་tobden1.1

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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 Tobden
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