Botso Surname
Approximately 566 people bear this surname
Botso Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 261 | 1:65,590 | 8,693 |
| Zimbabwe | 156 | 1:98,963 | 13,970 |
| DR Congo | 130 | 1:568,304 | 43,658 |
| Congo | 6 | 1:831,516 | 16,072 |
| Togo | 4 | 1:1,811,942 | 8,122 |
| Lesotho | 2 | 1:1,016,279 | 21,693 |
| South Africa | 2 | 1:27,088,852 | 277,613 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Gabon | 1 | 1:1,889,194 | 6,814 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Botso (111) may also be a first name.
Botso Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Botso Come From? nationality or country of origin
Botso (Georgian: ბოცო, Russian: Боцо) is more commonly found in Malawi than any other country/territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of Botso click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Botso? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 560,645th most commonly held family name world-wide, borne by approximately 1 in 12,875,523 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Botso reside; 74 percent reside in Southern Africa and 74 percent reside in South Bantu Africa. Botso is also the 890,531st most commonly occurring first name worldwide. It is borne by 111 people.
The surname is most prevalent in Malawi, where it is carried by 261 people, or 1 in 65,590. Barring Malawi this last name is found in 11 countries. It also occurs in Zimbabwe, where 28 percent are found and The DR Congo, where 23 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Botso Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Botso in the Georgian language | ||
| ბოცო | botso | - |
| Botso in the Russian language | ||
| Боцо | boco | - |
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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 Botso
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