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།) is borne by more people in Bhutan than any other country or territory. It can be found in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Tobgay? popularity and diffusion
Tobgay is the 127,502nd most prevalent family name worldwide It is held by approximately 1 in 2,048,214 people. This surname occurs mostly in Asia, where 100 percent of Tobgay reside; 99 percent reside in South Asia and 99 percent reside in Tibeto-South Asia. Tobgay is also the 281,229th most common first name at a global level. It is borne by 842 people.
The surname is most frequent in Bhutan, where it is borne by 3,515 people, or 1 in 175. In Bhutan it is most common in: Thimphu District, where 23 percent reside, Trashigang District, where 12 percent reside and Samdrup Jongkhar District, where 9 percent reside. Outside of Bhutan Tobgay exists in 9 countries. It is also found in India, where 1 percent reside and The United States, where 0 percent reside.
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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