Tobgye Surname
Approximately 91 people bear this surname
Tobgye Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bhutan | 88 | 1:7,000 | 298 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
Tobgye Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Tobgye Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Tobgye (Tibetan: སྟོབས་རྒྱས།) has its highest incidence in Bhutan. It may also be rendered as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Tobgye? popularity and diffusion
The last name Tobgye is the 1,955,159th most frequently held surname on a global scale, held by around 1 in 80,082,922 people. The surname occurs mostly in Asia, where 100 percent of Tobgye live; 98 percent live in South Asia and 97 percent live in Tibeto-South Asia.
It is most common in Bhutan, where it is carried by 88 people, or 1 in 7,000. In Bhutan Tobgye is primarily found in: Thimphu District, where 57 percent are found, Trashigang District, where 8 percent are found and Samdrup Jongkhar District, where 8 percent are found. Other than Bhutan it occurs in 3 countries. It is also common in India, where 1 percent are found and Singapore, where 1 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tobgy | 91 | 1,376 | / |
| Tobagy | 83 | 1 | / |
| Tibagye | 77 | 15 | / |
| Tubagye | 77 | 1 | / |
| Tabgy | 73 | 60 | / |
| Tubgy | 73 | 14 | / |
| Topgy | 73 | 9 | / |
| Tibgy | 73 | 1 | / |
| Twabagye | 71 | 100 | / |
| Tubwagye | 71 | 2 | / |
| Tibyagye | 71 | 2 | / |
| Twebagye | 71 | 2 | / |
| Tibaagye | 71 | 1 | / |
| Tibagy | 67 | 31 | / |
| Topagy | 67 | 4 | / |
| Tibagyeya | 67 | 1 | / |
| Tbagya | 67 | 1 | / |
| Topgya | 67 | 1 | / |
| Teebagy | 62 | 111 | / |
| Tabaugy | 62 | 1 | / |
| Tabugya | 62 | 1 | / |
| Debgy | 55 | 22 | / |
| Dubgy | 55 | 2 | / |
| Dubagy | 50 | 1 | / |
| Dbagyo | 50 | 1 | / |
Tobgye Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Tobgye in the Tibetan language | ||
| སྟོབས་རྒྱས། | tobgyé | 74.47 |
| སྟོབས་རྒྱས་ | tobgyé | 10.64 |
| སྟོབསྱ། | tobsya | 6.38 |
| སྟོབས་རྒྱལ། | tobgyal | 4.26 |
| སྟོབསྱ་ | tobsya | 4.26 |
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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
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Tobgye
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