Yangku Surname

3,141,416th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 39 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Bhutan
Highest density in:
Bhutan

Yangku Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Yangku Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Bhutan211:29,335539
Indonesia141:9,446,371356,066
China11:1,367,321,56651,149
Malaysia11:29,494,225409,885
South Korea11:51,240,2568,015
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

Yangku (94) may also be a first name.

Yangku Last Name Facts

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

Yangku (Tibetan: གཡང་སྐུ།) is more commonly found in Bhutan than any other country/territory. It may also be found as:. For other potential spellings of Yangku click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Yangku? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 3,141,416th most frequently occurring surname globally, held by around 1 in 186,860,152 people. It is primarily found in Asia, where 97 percent of Yangku are found; 54 percent are found in South Asia and 54 percent are found in Tibeto-South Asia. It is also the 980,251st most widely held first name worldwide It is held by 94 people.

This surname is most widely held in Bhutan, where it is carried by 21 people, or 1 in 29,335. In Bhutan it is primarily found in: Trashigang District, where 95 percent are found and Tsirang District, where 5 percent are found. Excluding Bhutan it is found in 5 countries. It is also common in Indonesia, where 36 percent are found and China, where 3 percent are found.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Yangkui924/
Yangkau923/
Yangkhu921/
Yanku91504/
Yankeu83587/
Yankou83420/
Jangku8384/
Yaneku8334/
Yankuu8312/
Yankhu839/
Yankup837/
Yankui833/
Yongku832/
Jangkup77126/
Yankhup7719/
Yankaus7712/
Jangkau7712/
Yongkeu7711/
Yiankou778/
Yongkui778/
Jangkui776/
Ayyanku773/
Yankeuh771/
Yongkup771/
Yongkus770/
Janku731,208/
Yancu7344/
Yonku738/
Ianku731/
Jiangkou7114/
Giangkou717/
Yanckous714/
Yahankeu711/
Yonkeu672,332/
Jankus671,326/
Jankuj67119/
Yonkus67114/
Yonkou6793/
Yanceu6736/
Yamkeu6724/
Yankoo6714/
Jongku6711/
Jankou6710/
Jankuš679/
Yankoe679/
Jhanku677/
Yancou676/
Jankui675/
Yonkui674/
Yancui673/
Iankhu672/
Gianku672/
Yonkhu671/
Yancus671/
Yamkui671/
Jannku671/
Jankhu671/
Yoonku671/
Jankuś671/
Jankeu671/
Yongcu671/
Yassinkeu671/
Ajonku671/

Yangku Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Yangku in the Tibetan language
གཡང་སྐུ།yangku54.9
གཡང་ཀུ།yangku9.8
གཡང་སྐུ་yangku7.84
དབྱངས་སྐུ།yangku5.88
གཡང་ཁུ།yangkhu5.88
དབྱངས་ཀུ།yangku5.88
དབྱངས་ཀུ་yangku3.92
གཡང་ཀུ་yangku1.96
དབྱངས་སྐུ།།yangku1.96
དབྱངས་ཁུ་yangkhu1.96

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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 Yangku
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