Wangchuk Surname
Approximately 16,477 people bear this surname
Wangchuk Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bhutan | 15,400 | 1:40 | 10 |
| India | 797 | 1:962,441 | 41,075 |
| United States | 99 | 1:3,661,201 | 203,401 |
| Thailand | 67 | 1:1,054,304 | 158,943 |
| Canada | 20 | 1:1,842,280 | 119,096 |
| Australia | 10 | 1:2,699,570 | 109,631 |
| England | 9 | 1:6,190,895 | 170,599 |
| Sri Lanka | 9 | 1:2,312,062 | 9,186 |
| Hong Kong | 9 | 1:815,054 | 3,802 |
| Qatar | 9 | 1:262,000 | 30,726 |
| Malaysia | 8 | 1:3,686,778 | 134,908 |
| Japan | 6 | 1:21,307,382 | 48,838 |
| Nepal | 6 | 1:4,746,826 | 12,065 |
| United Arab Emirates | 4 | 1:2,290,568 | 60,372 |
| Mongolia | 4 | 1:706,322 | 11,365 |
| Afghanistan | 2 | 1:16,076,592 | 43,178 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| Austria | 2 | 1:4,257,718 | 99,224 |
| Russia | 2 | 1:72,061,528 | 727,117 |
| Philippines | 2 | 1:50,619,112 | 341,003 |
| China | 2 | 1:683,660,783 | 30,601 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Bangladesh | 1 | 1:159,356,773 | 26,077 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
Wangchuk (4,234) may also be a first name.
Wangchuk Demographics
Average Wangchuk Salary in
United States
$32,732 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Wangchuk Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wangchuk Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Wangchuk (Tibetan: དབང་ཕྱུག།) is held by more people in Bhutan than any other country/territory. It may be rendered as:. Click here to see other potential spellings of Wangchuk.
How Common Is The Last Name Wangchuk? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 32,321st most prevalent surname on a worldwide basis, held by around 1 in 442,286 people. This surname is primarily found in Asia, where 99 percent of Wangchuk are found; 98 percent are found in South Asia and 93 percent are found in Tibeto-South Asia. It is also the 106,548th most commonly occurring first name worldwide, borne by 4,234 people.
The surname Wangchuk is most numerous in Bhutan, where it is held by 15,400 people, or 1 in 40. In Bhutan Wangchuk is mostly concentrated in: Thimphu District, where 21 percent are found, Trashigang District, where 13 percent are found and Mongar District, where 9 percent are found. Apart from Bhutan this last name occurs in 28 countries. It is also found in India, where 5 percent are found and The United States, where 1 percent are found.
Wangchuk Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States Wangchuk are 38.44% more likely to be registered Democrats than the national average, with 91.67% being registered with the political party.
The amount Wangchuk earn in different countries varies somewhat. In United States they earn 24.14% less than the national average, earning $32,732 USD per year and in Canada they earn 33.8% less than the national average, earning $32,888 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Wangchuk Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Wangchuk in the Tibetan language | ||
| དབང་ཕྱུག། | wangchuk | 89.65 |
| དབང་ཕྱུག་ | wangchuk | 6.21 |
| དབང་ཕྱུགས། | wangchuk | 2.36 |
| དབང་ཕྱུགས་ | wangchuk | 0.36 |
| དབང་འཕྱུག། | wangchuk | 0.27 |
| དབང་ཕྱུག | wangchuk | 0.19 |
| དབང་ཕྱུག་། | wangchuk | 0.16 |
| དབང་ཕྱ྄ག། | wangchk | 0.13 |
| དབང་པྱུག། | wangchuk | 0.09 |
| དབང་ཕྲུག། | wangtruk | 0.06 |
| དབང་ཕཡུག། | wangpayuk | 0.04 |
| དབང་འདུས། | wangdü | 0.04 |
| དབངཕྱུག། | wangchuk | 0.03 |
| དབང་ཕྱ྄ག་ | wangchk | 0.02 |
| དབང་འཕྱུགས། | wangchuk | 0.02 |
| ཕྱུག། | chuk | 0.02 |
| དམང་ཕྱུག། | mangchuk | 0.02 |
| དབང་འཕྱུག་ | wangchuk | 0.02 |
| དབག་ཕྱུག། | wakchuk | 0.02 |
| དབང་ཕྱུང། | wangchung | 0.02 |
| དབ་ཕྱུག། | dabchuk | 0.02 |
| དཕང་ཕྱུག། | dapangchuk | 0.02 |
| དབང་ཕྱག་ | wangchak | 0.01 |
| དབང་ཕྱུག།། | wangchuk | 0.01 |
| དབང་པྱུག་ | wangchuk | 0.01 |
| དབང་ཕྱིག། | wangchik | 0.01 |
| དབང་ཕྱ྄ུག། | wangchk | 0.01 |
| དབང་ཕུག། | wangpuk | 0.01 |
| དབང་ཕྱུུག། | wangchuk | 0.01 |
| དབང་་ཕྱུག་ | wangchuk | 0.01 |
| དབང་ཕྱབག། | wangchabak | 0.01 |
| དབང་ཕྱ྄གས། | wangchk | 0.01 |
| དབང་ཕྱུུག་། | wangchuk | 0.01 |
| དབང་ཕྱགས། | wangchak | 0.01 |
| དབང་ཕྱུགས | wangchuk | 0.01 |
| དབང་ཕྱ྄ག༑ | wangchk | 0.01 |
| དབང་ཕཡུག་ | wangpayuk | 0.01 |
| དབང་ཕྱག། | wangchak | 0.01 |
| དབང་ཕྱུགལ་ | wangchugal | 0.01 |
| དབངཕྱུག་ | wangchuk | 0.01 |
| དབང་ཕྱུགསཉ | wangchugsanya | 0.01 |
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Footnotes
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- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Wangchuk
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