Wangyel Surname

912,827th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 291 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Bhutan
Highest density in:
Bhutan

Wangyel Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Wangyel Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Bhutan2821:2,185161
India31:255,688,4611,306,352
United States31:120,819,6441,331,040
Bahamas11:391,7512,737
Nigeria11:177,142,758748,972
Puerto Rico11:3,550,1399,109

Wangyel (47) may also be a first name.

Wangyel Last Name Facts

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

The last name Wangyel (Tibetan: དབང་རྒྱལ།) is held by more people in Bhutan than any other country/territory. It can also occur as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Wangyel? popularity and diffusion

The surname Wangyel is the 912,827th most frequently held family name at a global level It is held by around 1 in 25,043,113 people. This last name occurs mostly in Asia, where 98 percent of Wangyel are found; 98 percent are found in South Asia and 97 percent are found in Tibeto-South Asia. It is also the 1,467,136th most frequently occurring first name throughout the world, borne by 47 people.

The surname is most frequently held in Bhutan, where it is carried by 282 people, or 1 in 2,185. In Bhutan it is most prevalent in: Thimphu District, where 54 percent reside, Paro District, where 10 percent reside and Chukha District, where 8 percent reside. Without taking into account Bhutan it occurs in 5 countries. It is also common in India, where 1 percent reside and The United States, where 1 percent reside.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Wanggel8617/
Vangyel861/
Wangayyele821/
Vangyele802/
Wangyail801/
Vangjel71158/
Wandiel713/
Wandjel711/
Vangeil711/
Wandjele672/
Wandiele671/
Vangijsel633/
Vangijssel594/
Vongyil575/
Bandiel572/
Baageil571/
Bandjel571/
Wondjel571/
Baghiel571/
Vageill570/
Vandiehl532/
Vandjele531/
Vagelova531/
Vangilova5013/
Vandylova502/
Vandelova502/
Weigelova501/

Wangyel Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Wangyel in the Tibetan language
དབང་རྒྱལ།wanggyal84.73
དབང་རྒྱལ་wanggyal12.21
དབང་རྒྱལwanggyal1.53
དབང་རྒྱལ་།wanggyal0.76
དབང་རྒྱས།wanggyé0.76

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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 Wangyel
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