Wangpo Surname

1,604,449th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 126 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Bhutan
Highest density in:
Bhutan

Wangpo Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Wangpo Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Bhutan841:7,334310
India211:36,526,923420,161
Thailand81:8,829,793476,604
Cameroon51:4,153,814129,697
United States41:90,614,7331,198,479
Belgium11:11,496,644167,539
England11:55,718,059489,080
France11:66,422,722504,397
Nepal11:28,480,95622,413

Wangpo (440) may also be a first name.

Wangpo Last Name Facts

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

Wangpo (Tibetan: དབང་པོ།) occurs in Bhutan more than any other country or territory. It can also appear as:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Wangpo? popularity and diffusion

Wangpo is the 1,604,449th most widely held family name at a global level, held by approximately 1 in 57,837,666 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Asia, where 90 percent of Wangpo live; 84 percent live in South Asia and 67 percent live in Tibeto-South Asia. Wangpo is also the 408,694th most common forename at a global level, borne by 440 people.

The last name Wangpo is most frequent in Bhutan, where it is held by 84 people, or 1 in 7,334. In Bhutan Wangpo is mostly found in: Trashigang District, where 31 percent live, Samdrup Jongkhar District, where 20 percent live and Zhemgang District, where 11 percent live. Outside of Bhutan this last name occurs in 8 countries. It also occurs in India, where 17 percent live and Thailand, where 6 percent live.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Hwangpo9263/
Wangpho929/
Whangpo926/
Wangpoh922/
Wangpoo921/
Wangphot86212/
Wankpo83693/
Wangpa83302/
Wongpo8315/
Wangpha77259/
Bangpho7749/
Wongpho7717/
Wongpoo779/
Wongpoy776/
Bangpoo775/
Whamgpo774/
Wongpoj772/
Huangpo772/
Wongphot71640/
Wangphat71185/
Wongphop7132/
Wongphoo717/
Whangpat715/
Hwangpat711/
Wangpatt711/
Wangkpha711/
Wongpood711/
Wongphoy711/
Woingpoo711/
Bangpa67215/
Wongpa67196/
Wankpa6718/
Vongpo676/
Hwangphat674/
Vangpa672/
Bongpo671/
Wonkpo671/
Wamkpo671/

Wangpo Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Wangpo in the Tibetan language
དབང་པོ།wangpo87.78
དབང་པོ་wangpo11.11
བཟང་པོ།zangpo1.11

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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 Wangpo
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