Tongchen Surname
Approximately 57 people bear this surname
Tongchen Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taiwan | 53 | 1:442,354 | 3,378 |
| India | 3 | 1:255,688,461 | 1,306,352 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Tongchen (3,907) may also be a first name.
Tongchen Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Tongchen Come From? nationality or country of origin
Tongchen (Tibetan: སྟོང་ཆེན།) is borne by more people in Taiwan than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as:. For other possible spellings of Tongchen click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Tongchen? popularity and diffusion
Tongchen is the 2,555,468th most common surname on earth It is held by around 1 in 127,851,683 people. It is primarily found in Asia, where 98 percent of Tongchen live; 93 percent live in East Asia and 93 percent live in Sino-East Asia. Tongchen is also the 112,066th most commonly used given name in the world, borne by 3,907 people.
This last name is most widespread in Taiwan, where it is held by 53 people, or 1 in 442,354. In Taiwan Tongchen is most numerous in: Taichung City, where 55 percent live, Tainan City, where 11 percent live and Chiayi County, where 8 percent live. Not including Taiwan Tongchen is found in 2 countries. It is also common in India, where 5 percent live and The United States, where 2 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Tongchen Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Tongchen in the Tibetan language | ||
| སྟོང་ཆེན། | tongchen | - |
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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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- 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 Tongchen
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