Dorji
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dɔɹʒi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dorji is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bhutan than in any other country, where it is the 96th most common surname.
- INIndia1 in 184K(measured from records)
- BTBhutan≈1 in 51
- AUAustralia≈1 in 159K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Bhutan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 97 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 51 (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Bhutan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dorji counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BT Bhutan | #96 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 51 | — | Dorji | 4 |
| IN India | — | 7,215 | 1 in 184K | 7.2K | Dorji | 40 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 159K | — | Dorji | 60 |
| US United States | — | ≈79 est. | ≈1 in 4.2M | listed | Dorji | 97 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 604K | — | Dorji | 6 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 18 | 1 in 467K | 18 | Dorji | 3 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Dorji is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, viena no gondu cilšu grupām, dzīvo Indijas centrālajā daļā, valoda pieder pie dravīdu valodām
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Dorji Wangmo Wangchuckb. 1955BTQueenmother of Bhutan, author
- Dorji Wangchukb. 1967BTprofessor for Tibetan (Buddhist) Studies
- Dorji Khandob. 1994BTbadminton player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 7.2K | #1,216 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 54 | #1,327 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 32 | #2,753 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 18 | #39,486 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 8 | #776 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 5 | #1,458 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4 | #3,989 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Dorji?
- A machine transcription gives /dɔɹʒi/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Dorji have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Dorji in Bhutan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dorji.
- How common is the name Dorji?
- In India, the national register counted 7,215 people named Dorji, about 1 in 184 thousand residents.
- How common is Dorji compared with other names?
- In Bhutan, Dorji is the 96th most common surname of 223 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dorjiThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Dorji” — the 96th most common surname in Bhutan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.