Yeshey Surname
Approximately 162 people bear this surname
Yeshey Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bhutan | 155 | 1:3,974 | 233 |
| Thailand | 3 | 1:23,546,115 | 908,588 |
| India | 2 | 1:383,532,691 | 1,645,216 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Yeshey (3,444) may also be a first name.
Yeshey Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yeshey Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Yeshey (Tibetan: ཡེ་ཤེས་) is held by more people in Bhutan than any other country or territory. It may be rendered as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Yeshey? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 1,364,059th most frequently occurring family name globally, held by approximately 1 in 44,984,851 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Asia, where 99 percent of Yeshey reside; 97 percent reside in South Asia and 96 percent reside in Tibeto-South Asia. Yeshey is also the 121,191st most numerous forename on earth It is held by 3,444 people.
The last name is most widespread in Bhutan, where it is borne by 155 people, or 1 in 3,974. In Bhutan Yeshey is primarily found in: Thimphu District, where 47 percent reside, Trashigang District, where 7 percent reside and Zhemgang District, where 6 percent reside. Without taking into account Bhutan Yeshey occurs in 4 countries. It also occurs in Thailand, where 2 percent reside and India, where 1 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Yeshey Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Yeshey in the Tibetan language | ||
| ཡེ་ཤེས་ | yeshe | 82.37 |
| ཡེ་ཤེས། | yeshe | 12.87 |
| ཡེསེ་ | yesé | 1.09 |
| ཡེེས་ | yé | 1.09 |
| ཡཻས་ | yai | 0.58 |
| ཡེ་ཤེས་། | yeshe | 0.33 |
| ཡཻས། | yai | 0.25 |
| ཡི་ཤེས་ | yishé | 0.25 |
| ཡེ་ཤིས་ | yéshi | 0.17 |
| ཡེས་ཤེས་ | yéshé | 0.17 |
| ཡེེ་ཤེས་ | yéshé | 0.17 |
| ཡེསེ། | yesé | 0.08 |
| ཡེ་ཤས་ | yéshé | 0.08 |
| ཡིད་ཤེས། | yishé | 0.08 |
| ཡེཤེས། | yeshé | 0.08 |
| ཡེ་ཤེས | yeshe | 0.08 |
| ཡེ་ཤེེས་ | yéshé | 0.08 |
| སེ་ཤེས་ | séshé | 0.08 |
| ཡེ་ཤེ་ | yeshe | 0.08 |
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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 Yeshey
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