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 last name Wangzom (Tibetan: དབང་འཛོམས།) occurs in Bhutan more than any other country/territory. It may also be rendered as:. Click here for further possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Wangzom? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 403,960th most widely held family name in the world It is held by around 1 in 8,395,790 people. The last name Wangzom occurs predominantly in Asia, where 100 percent of Wangzom are found; 100 percent are found in South Asia and 98 percent are found in Tibeto-South Asia. It is also the 675,152nd most widespread first name on earth, held by 182 people.
The last name is most common in Bhutan, where it is carried by 849 people, or 1 in 726. In Bhutan it is most prevalent in: Samdrup Jongkhar District, where 39 percent are found, Trashigang District, where 23 percent are found and Mongar District, where 10 percent are found. Beside Bhutan it exists in one country. It also occurs in India, where 2 percent are found.
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
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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 Wangzom
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