Wangchen Surname

110,796th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 4,194 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Taiwan
Highest density in:
Bhutan

Wangchen Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Wangchen Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Taiwan3,8351:6,113138
Bhutan2521:2,445176
China471:29,091,9481,546
India441:17,433,304271,013
United States51:72,491,7871,102,614
Nepal31:9,493,65216,132
Thailand31:23,546,115908,588
Australia11:26,995,701270,794
Denmark11:5,644,71593,155
Iceland11:380,09011,096
New Zealand11:4,528,32355,372
Philippines11:101,238,223404,861

Wangchen (3,861) may also be a first name.

Wangchen Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Wangchen Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Wangchen (Tibetan: དབང་ཆེན།) is found most frequently in Taiwan. It can be found in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Wangchen? popularity and diffusion

The surname Wangchen is the 110,796th most frequent surname internationally It is held by around 1 in 1,737,612 people. The surname is mostly found in Asia, where 100 percent of Wangchen are found; 93 percent are found in East Asia and 93 percent are found in Sino-East Asia. It is also the 112,999th most frequently used forename at a global level. It is borne by 3,861 people.

The surname is most widely held in Taiwan, where it is held by 3,835 people, or 1 in 6,113. In Taiwan it is primarily found in: Taichung City, where 19 percent are found, Kaohsiung City, where 19 percent are found and Tainan City, where 16 percent are found. Outside of Taiwan this last name is found in 11 countries. It also occurs in Bhutan, where 6 percent are found and China, where 1 percent are found.

Wangchen Last Name Statistics demography

Wangchen earn less than half the average income. In United States they earn 57.51% less than the national average, earning $18,333 USD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

Wangchen Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Wangchen in the Tibetan language
དབང་ཆེན།wangchen66.17
དབང་ཆེན་wangchen25.37
དབང་ཅན།wangchen2.99
དབང་ཆེན་།wangchen1
དབང་ཕྱུག།wangchuk0.5
དབང་ཆན།wangchen0.5
དབྱངས་ཅེན་yangchen0.5
དབང་ཅེན།wangchen0.5
དབྱངས་ཅན།yangchen0.5
དབང་ལྡན།wangden0.5
དབང་ཅན་wangchen0.5
དབང་བཙན།wangtsen0.5
དབང་ཆེནwangchen0.5

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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 Wangchen
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