Wangzom Surname
Approximately 868 people bear this surname
Wangzom Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bhutan | 849 | 1:726 | 96 |
| India | 19 | 1:40,371,862 | 445,856 |
Wangzom (182) may also be a first name.
Wangzom Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wangzom Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Wangzom (Tibetan: དབང་འཛོམས།) has its highest incidence in Bhutan. It can also be found as:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Wangzom? popularity and diffusion
Wangzom is the 403,960th most commonly used family name at a global level. It is borne by around 1 in 8,395,790 people. The last name is predominantly found in Asia, where 100 percent of Wangzom reside; 100 percent reside in South Asia and 98 percent reside in Tibeto-South Asia. Wangzom is also the 675,152nd most commonly held first name at a global level. It is borne by 182 people.
It is most numerous in Bhutan, where it is borne by 849 people, or 1 in 726. In Bhutan Wangzom is most prevalent in: Samdrup Jongkhar District, where 39 percent reside, Trashigang District, where 23 percent reside and Mongar District, where 10 percent reside. Beside Bhutan this last name is found in one country. It is also found in India, where 2 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wangzome | 93 | 2 | / |
| Wangsom | 86 | 1,793 | / |
| Wangjom | 86 | 56 | / |
| Wangchom | 80 | 700 | / |
| Whangsom | 80 | 5 | / |
| Hwangsom | 80 | 1 | / |
| Hwangchom | 75 | 1 | / |
| Wongsom | 71 | 1,312 | / |
| Wongjom | 71 | 802 | / |
| Wangsam | 71 | 122 | / |
| Wangjam | 71 | 69 | / |
| Wangsum | 71 | 14 | / |
| Wongcom | 71 | 9 | / |
| Wangjum | 71 | 3 | / |
| Wongchom | 67 | 3,542 | / |
| Wangzhan | 67 | 148 | / |
| Wangcham | 67 | 43 | / |
| Bangchom | 67 | 26 | / |
| Wongjoom | 67 | 2 | / |
| Huangsom | 67 | 1 | / |
| Waingcum | 67 | 1 | / |
| Weangsam | 67 | 1 | / |
| Weangcam | 67 | 1 | / |
| Wang'zan | 67 | 1 | / |
Wangzom Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Wangzom in the Tibetan language | ||
| དབང་འཛོམས། | wangdzom | 95.93 |
| དབང་མོ། | wangmo | 0.81 |
| གཡང་འཛོམས། | yangdzom | 0.81 |
| དབྱངས་འཛོམས། | yangdzom | 0.65 |
| དབང་འཛོམས་ | wangdzom | 0.49 |
| དབང་འཛོམས | wangdzom | 0.33 |
| དབང་བཟོམ། | wangzom | 0.33 |
| དབང་འཛིམས། | wangdzim | 0.16 |
| དབང་འཚོམས། | wangtsom | 0.16 |
| དབང་འཛོམ། | wangdzom | 0.16 |
| དབང་རྫོམ། | wangdzom | 0.16 |
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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 Wangzom
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