Dotu Surname
Approximately 535 people bear this surname
Dotu Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 273 | 1:484,429 | 39,843 |
| Moldova | 101 | 1:35,261 | 5,486 |
| Spain | 78 | 1:599,385 | 28,019 |
| India | 29 | 1:26,450,530 | 346,896 |
| Nigeria | 22 | 1:8,051,944 | 174,166 |
| Papua New Guinea | 9 | 1:905,969 | 94,851 |
| Niger | 6 | 1:3,198,670 | 54,540 |
| Russia | 5 | 1:28,824,611 | 530,332 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Solomon Islands | 1 | 1:580,029 | 22,243 |
| Bhutan | 1 | 1:616,039 | 1,715 |
| Turkey | 1 | 1:77,821,422 | 191,047 |
| Belarus | 1 | 1:9,501,059 | 159,228 |
The alternate forms: Dotú (7) are calculated separately.
Dotu (238) may also be a first name.
Dotu Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Dotu Come From? nationality or country of origin
Dotu (Hindi: दोटू, Marathi: दोटू, Russian: Доту, Tibetan: རྡོ་ཀྲུ།) is held by more people in Indonesia than any other country/territory. It can appear in the variant forms: Dotú. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Dotu? popularity and diffusion
The surname Dotu is the 585,091st most commonly occurring last name in the world, held by around 1 in 13,621,581 people. The surname Dotu is primarily found in Asia, where 57 percent of Dotu reside; 51 percent reside in Southeast Asia and 51 percent reside in Malayo-Arabic Southeast Asia. It is also the 580,229th most commonly held first name at a global level, held by 238 people.
The surname is most commonly occurring in Indonesia, where it is borne by 273 people, or 1 in 484,429. In Indonesia Dotu is most common in: Gorontalo, where 65 percent reside, Central Sulawesi, where 32 percent reside and Lampung, where 2 percent reside. Apart from Indonesia it exists in 16 countries. It also occurs in Moldova, where 19 percent reside and Spain, where 15 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Dotu Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Dotu in the Hindi language | ||
| दोटू | dotu | 75 |
| दोतू | dotu | 25 |
| Dotu in the Marathi language | ||
| दोटू | dotu | 75 |
| डोतु | dotu | 25 |
| Dotu in the Tibetan language | ||
| རྡོ་ཀྲུ། | dotru | 36.84 |
| རྡོ་སྤྲུ། | dotru | 15.79 |
| རྡོ་སྤྲུགས། | dotruk | 10.53 |
| རྡོ་སྤྲུག། | dotruk | 10.53 |
| རྡོ་ཀྲུ་ | dotru | 5.26 |
| རྡོ་ཀྲུགས། | dotruk | 5.26 |
| མདོ་ཀྲུ། | dotru | 5.26 |
| རྡོ་ཀྲུག། | dotruk | 5.26 |
| རྡོ་ཀྲུ་། | dotru | 5.26 |
| Dotu in the Russian language | ||
| Доту | dotu | - |
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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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- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Dotu
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