Datou Surname
Approximately 231 people bear this surname
Datou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 191 | 1:108,739 | 12,726 |
| Mauritania | 14 | 1:292,490 | 12,957 |
| Niger | 10 | 1:1,919,202 | 37,248 |
| China | 4 | 1:341,830,392 | 16,990 |
| Algeria | 3 | 1:12,877,184 | 84,902 |
| Belgium | 2 | 1:5,748,322 | 130,559 |
| Iran | 2 | 1:38,391,262 | 236,033 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
Datou (123) may also be a first name.
Datou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Datou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Datou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺩﺍﺗﻮ) occurs in Cameroon more than any other country/territory. It can appear as a variant:. Click here for other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Datou? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,073,555th most numerous family name in the world, borne by approximately 1 in 31,547,818 people. Datou occurs mostly in Africa, where 95 percent of Datou reside; 71 percent reside in Central Africa and 70 percent reside in Adamawa-Ubangian Africa. It is also the 840,349th most commonly occurring first name worldwide, held by 123 people.
This last name is most frequently occurring in Cameroon, where it is borne by 191 people, or 1 in 108,739. In Cameroon Datou is most frequent in: Adamawa Region, where 84 percent reside, Far North Region, where 12 percent reside and North Region, where 2 percent reside. Aside from Cameroon this last name occurs in 11 countries. It also occurs in Mauritania, where 6 percent reside and Niger, where 4 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Datou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Datou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺩﺍﺗﻮ | datw | 60 |
| ﺍﻟﺪﺍﺗﻮ | aldatw | 20 |
| ﺩﺍﺕ | dat | 13.33 |
| ﺍﺩﺍﺗﻮ | adatw | 6.67 |
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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 Datou
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