Gaatu Surname
Approximately 100 people bear this surname
Gaatu Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kenya | 95 | 1:486,104 | 25,105 |
| India | 5 | 1:153,413,076 | 951,030 |
Gaatu Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gaatu Come From? nationality or country of origin
Gaatu is held by more people in Kenya than any other country/territory. It may also be found as:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gaatu? popularity and diffusion
The last name Gaatu is the 1,849,867th most commonly occurring last name in the world It is held by approximately 1 in 72,875,459 people. The last name Gaatu occurs predominantly in Africa, where 95 percent of Gaatu live; 95 percent live in East Africa and 95 percent live in East Bantu Africa.
This last name is most frequently used in Kenya, where it is held by 95 people, or 1 in 486,104. In Kenya Gaatu is most common in: Kwale County, where 99 percent live and Mombasa County, where 1 percent live. Aside from Kenya this last name exists in one country. It is also found in India, where 5 percent live.
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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 Gaatu
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