Tobgyel Surname
Approximately 256 people bear this surname
Tobgyel Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bhutan | 245 | 1:2,514 | 178 |
| Thailand | 5 | 1:14,127,669 | 603,945 |
| India | 2 | 1:383,532,691 | 1,645,216 |
| Argentina | 1 | 1:42,743,414 | 282,706 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Tobgyel (21) may also be a first name.
Tobgyel Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Tobgyel Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Tobgyel (Tibetan: སྟོབས་རྒྱལ།) occurs most in Bhutan. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of Tobgyel click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Tobgyel? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 998,609th most commonly occurring surname globally It is held by approximately 1 in 28,466,976 people. It occurs predominantly in Asia, where 99 percent of Tobgyel are found; 96 percent are found in South Asia and 96 percent are found in Tibeto-South Asia. Tobgyel is also the 2,368,944th most common given name throughout the world, borne by 21 people.
This last name is most commonly used in Bhutan, where it is borne by 245 people, or 1 in 2,514. In Bhutan Tobgyel is most numerous in: Thimphu District, where 53 percent reside, Trashigang District, where 11 percent reside and Zhemgang District, where 5 percent reside. Besides Bhutan it is found in 6 countries. It is also found in Thailand, where 2 percent reside and India, where 1 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Tobgyel Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Tobgyel in the Tibetan language | ||
| སྟོབས་རྒྱལ། | tobgyal | 73.11 |
| སྟོབས་རྒྱས། | tobgyé | 17.65 |
| སྟོབས་རྒྱལ་ | tobgyal | 3.36 |
| སྟོབས་རྒྱས་ | tobgyé | 1.68 |
| བསྟོབས་རྒྱལ། | tobgyal | 0.84 |
| སྟོབས་རྒྱལ་། | tobgyal | 0.84 |
| སྟཽབ་རྒྱལ། | taubgyal | 0.84 |
| སྟོབས་རྒྱར། | tobgyar | 0.84 |
| བསྟོབས་རྒྱས། | tobgyé | 0.84 |
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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
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- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Tobgyel
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