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
Yeshey (Tibetan: ཡེ་ཤེས་) is carried by more people in Bhutan than any other country/territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yeshey? popularity and diffusion
Yeshey is the 1,364,059th most numerous family name on a worldwide basis. It is borne by approximately 1 in 44,984,851 people. The surname is predominantly found in Asia, where 99 percent of Yeshey live; 97 percent live in South Asia and 96 percent live in Tibeto-South Asia. It is also the 121,191st most commonly occurring given name world-wide, held by 3,444 people.
The last name Yeshey is most commonly occurring in Bhutan, where it is borne by 155 people, or 1 in 3,974. In Bhutan Yeshey is primarily concentrated in: Thimphu District, where 47 percent are found, Trashigang District, where 7 percent are found and Zhemgang District, where 6 percent are found. Outside of Bhutan this surname is found in 4 countries. It also occurs in Thailand, where 2 percent are found and India, where 1 percent are found.
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
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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 Yeshey
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