Tobgay Surname
Approximately 3,558 people bear this surname
Tobgay Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bhutan | 3,515 | 1:175 | 36 |
| India | 22 | 1:34,866,608 | 408,224 |
| United States | 11 | 1:32,950,812 | 797,015 |
| Finland | 2 | 1:2,748,351 | 72,663 |
| Nepal | 2 | 1:14,240,478 | 17,812 |
| Thailand | 2 | 1:35,319,172 | 966,191 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
Tobgay (842) may also be a first name.
Tobgay Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Tobgay Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Tobgay (Tibetan: སྟོབས་རྒྱས།) occurs most in Bhutan. It can also appear as:. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Tobgay? popularity and diffusion
It is the 127,502nd most frequently held family name at a global level, held by around 1 in 2,048,214 people. The surname is mostly found in Asia, where 100 percent of Tobgay live; 99 percent live in South Asia and 99 percent live in Tibeto-South Asia. Tobgay is also the 281,229th most frequently used forename internationally, held by 842 people.
The last name Tobgay is most numerous in Bhutan, where it is held by 3,515 people, or 1 in 175. In Bhutan it is mostly concentrated in: Thimphu District, where 23 percent are found, Trashigang District, where 12 percent are found and Samdrup Jongkhar District, where 9 percent are found. Outside of Bhutan this surname is found in 9 countries. It also occurs in India, where 1 percent are found and The United States, where 0 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Tobgay Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Tobgay in the Tibetan language | ||
| སྟོབས་རྒྱས། | tobgyé | 77.07 |
| སྟོབས་རྒྱལ། | tobgyal | 15 |
| སྟོབས་རྒྱས་ | tobgyé | 2.41 |
| སྟོབ་རྒྱས། | tobgyé | 1.15 |
| སྟོབ་རྒྱལ། | tobgyal | 1 |
| བསྟོབས་རྒྱས། | tobgyé | 0.85 |
| སྟོབསྱ། | tobsya | 0.65 |
| སྟོབས་རྒྱལ་ | tobgyal | 0.15 |
| རྟོབས་རྒྱས། | tobgyé | 0.15 |
| སྟོམས་རྒྱལ། | tomgyal | 0.1 |
| སྟོབས་རྒྱས་། | tobgyé | 0.1 |
| ལྟོབས་རྒྱས། | tobgyé | 0.1 |
| སྟོབ་རྒྱས་ | tobgyé | 0.1 |
| ལྟོབས་རྒྱལ། | tobgyal | 0.1 |
| སྟོབསྱ་ | tobsya | 0.1 |
| བསྟོབ་རྒྱས། | tobgyé | 0.1 |
| སྟོབས་རྒྱས | tobgyé | 0.1 |
| སྟོབས་་རྒྱས། | tobgyé | 0.1 |
| བསྟོམས་རྒྱས། | tomgyé | 0.05 |
| སྟོོབས་རྒྱས། | tobgyé | 0.05 |
| སྟོསབ་རྒྱས། | tosabgyé | 0.05 |
| སྟོབས་རྒྱར། | tobgyar | 0.05 |
| སྟོས་རྒྱས། | tögyé | 0.05 |
| སྟོབས་རྔྱལ། | tobrngyal | 0.05 |
| སྟབས་རྒྱས། | tabgyé | 0.05 |
| སྟོམས་རྒྱས། | tomgyé | 0.05 |
| རྟོབ་རྒྱས། | tobgyé | 0.05 |
| སྟོབ་ས་རྒྱས། | tobsagyé | 0.05 |
| སྟཽབས་རྒྱལ། | taubgyal | 0.05 |
| ལྷབ་རྒྱས། | lhabgyé | 0.05 |
| སྟོབས་རྒྱལ་། | tobgyal | 0.05 |
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- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Tobgay
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