Aotearoa Surname

3,798,600th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 27 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
New Zealand
Highest density in:
Cook Islands

Aotearoa Surname User-submission:

Aotearoa is the Maori name for New Zealand, meaning 'land of the long white cloud'.

Aotearoa Surname Distribution Map

By incidenceBy frequencyBy rank
Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
New Zealand211:215,63421,249
Indonesia21:66,124,597756,638
Australia11:26,995,701270,794
Cook Islands11:18,1791,485
Fiji11:894,3914,568
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

Aotearoa Surname Meaning

User-submitted Reference

Aotearoa is the Maori name for New Zealand, meaning 'land of the long white cloud'.

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DNA test information

Aotearoa Last Name Facts

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

Aotearoa is most common in New Zealand. It may also be found in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of Aotearoa.

How Common Is The Last Name Aotearoa? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 3,798,600th most frequently used surname worldwide It is held by approximately 1 in 269,909,108 people. The last name is mostly found in Oceania, where 89 percent of Aotearoa live; 81 percent live in Australasia and 81 percent live in Australia and New Zealand.

This surname is most commonly held in New Zealand, where it is carried by 21 people, or 1 in 215,634. In New Zealand Aotearoa is most prevalent in: Auckland Region, where 38 percent reside, Waikato Region, where 29 percent reside and Wellington Region, where 24 percent reside. Not including New Zealand it exists in 5 countries. It is also found in Indonesia, where 7 percent reside and Australia, where 4 percent reside.

Phonetically Similar Names

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SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Aotaraz802/
Ayotaro802/
Aoteare801/
Gaoutara752/
Aouttara751/
Aoutarou751/
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Aotari7123/
Oataro712/
Ouatara67624/
Aotarid67204/
Eyotaro6731/
Oattara6728/
Ahotari674/
Aotareh671/
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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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  • 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 Aotearoa
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