Wangchuk Surname

32,321st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 16,477 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Bhutan
Highest density in:
Bhutan

Wangchuk Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Wangchuk Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Bhutan15,4001:4010
India7971:962,44141,075
United States991:3,661,201203,401
Thailand671:1,054,304158,943
Canada201:1,842,280119,096
Australia101:2,699,570109,631
England91:6,190,895170,599
Sri Lanka91:2,312,0629,186
Hong Kong91:815,0543,802
Qatar91:262,00030,726
Malaysia81:3,686,778134,908
Japan61:21,307,38248,838
Nepal61:4,746,82612,065
United Arab Emirates41:2,290,56860,372
Mongolia41:706,32211,365
Afghanistan21:16,076,59243,178
Brazil21:107,037,1661,031,150
Austria21:4,257,71899,224
Russia21:72,061,528727,117
Philippines21:50,619,112341,003
China21:683,660,78330,601
Norway11:5,142,286129,201
New Zealand11:4,528,32355,372
Poland11:38,008,749231,653
Netherlands11:16,887,176156,465
Bangladesh11:159,356,77326,077
Germany11:80,505,459560,955
Finland11:5,496,70284,025
Denmark11:5,644,71593,155

Wangchuk (4,234) may also be a first name.

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

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Wangchuck9494/
Wangchhuk9449/
Wanghchuk941/
Wanggchuk941/
Wanngchuk941/
Wangcuk933/
Wangchhuck891/
Wangchok88142/
Wangchug8834/
Vangchuk881/
Hwanghuk881/
Bangcheuk821/
Wangtsuk751/
Wongkhuk751/
Wongchok751/
Wongchuig7113/
Wongjuk6725/
Wongjuck631/
Wongjug534/
Vongjuk532/

Wangchuk Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Wangchuk in the Tibetan language
དབང་ཕྱུག།wangchuk89.65
དབང་ཕྱུག་wangchuk6.21
དབང་ཕྱུགས།wangchuk2.36
དབང་ཕྱུགས་wangchuk0.36
དབང་འཕྱུག།wangchuk0.27
དབང་ཕྱུགwangchuk0.19
དབང་ཕྱུག་།wangchuk0.16
དབང་ཕྱ྄ག།wangchk0.13
དབང་པྱུག།wangchuk0.09
དབང་ཕྲུག།wangtruk0.06
དབང་ཕཡུག།wangpayuk0.04
དབང་འདུས།wangdü0.04
དབངཕྱུག།wangchuk0.03
དབང་ཕྱ྄ག་wangchk0.02
དབང་འཕྱུགས།wangchuk0.02
ཕྱུག།chuk0.02
དམང་ཕྱུག།mangchuk0.02
དབང་འཕྱུག་wangchuk0.02
དབག་ཕྱུག།wakchuk0.02
དབང་ཕྱུང།wangchung0.02
དབ་ཕྱུག།dabchuk0.02
དཕང་ཕྱུག།dapangchuk0.02
དབང་ཕྱག་wangchak0.01
དབང་ཕྱུག།།wangchuk0.01
དབང་པྱུག་wangchuk0.01
དབང་ཕྱིག།wangchik0.01
དབང་ཕྱ྄ུག།wangchk0.01
དབང་ཕུག།wangpuk0.01
དབང་ཕྱུུག།wangchuk0.01
དབང་་ཕྱུག་wangchuk0.01
དབང་ཕྱབག།wangchabak0.01
དབང་ཕྱ྄གས།wangchk0.01
དབང་ཕྱུུག་།wangchuk0.01
དབང་ཕྱགས།wangchak0.01
དབང་ཕྱུགསwangchuk0.01
དབང་ཕྱ྄ག༑wangchk0.01
དབང་ཕཡུག་wangpayuk0.01
དབང་ཕྱག།wangchak0.01
དབང་ཕྱུགལ་wangchugal0.01
དབངཕྱུག་wangchuk0.01
དབང་ཕྱུགསཉwangchugsanya0.01

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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
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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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