Dottey Surname
Approximately 624 people bear this surname
Dottey Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ghana | 623 | 1:43,372 | 4,874 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 18 | 1:2,789,927 | 129,797 |
Dottey Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Dottey Come From? nationality or country of origin
Dottey is more frequently found in Ghana than any other country or territory. It may also occur as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Dottey? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 521,266th most frequently occurring surname world-wide, held by around 1 in 11,678,759 people. The surname Dottey occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Dottey live; 100 percent live in West Africa and 100 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
This last name is most frequent in Ghana, where it is held by 623 people, or 1 in 43,372. Without taking into account Ghana it occurs in one country. It also occurs in The United States, where 0 percent are found.
Dottey Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Dottey has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Dottey last name fell 94 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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Dottey Reference & Research
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Dottey
- To find out more about this surname's family history, lookup records on FamilySearch, MyHeritage, FindMyPast and Ancestry. Further information may be obtained by DNA analysis