Gatu Surname
Approximately 4,742 people bear this surname
Gatu Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ethiopia | 1,771 | 1:55,080 | 5,737 |
| Kenya | 1,464 | 1:31,544 | 3,446 |
| India | 814 | 1:942,341 | 40,427 |
| Romania | 153 | 1:131,228 | 14,297 |
| Solomon Islands | 148 | 1:3,919 | 454 |
| Sweden | 105 | 1:93,779 | 6,818 |
| Indonesia | 102 | 1:1,296,561 | 90,231 |
| Papua New Guinea | 55 | 1:148,249 | 20,445 |
| DR Congo | 27 | 1:2,736,280 | 122,818 |
| Nigeria | 13 | 1:13,626,366 | 237,812 |
| Argentina | 11 | 1:3,885,765 | 145,016 |
| South Africa | 10 | 1:5,417,770 | 150,016 |
| Malaysia | 9 | 1:3,277,136 | 121,952 |
| United Arab Emirates | 8 | 1:1,145,284 | 40,289 |
| United States | 8 | 1:45,307,367 | 917,113 |
| England | 7 | 1:7,959,723 | 202,100 |
| Tanzania | 5 | 1:10,588,323 | 75,430 |
| Yemen | 4 | 1:6,606,324 | 25,896 |
| Ghana | 4 | 1:6,755,173 | 15,406 |
| Australia | 3 | 1:8,998,567 | 200,784 |
| Russia | 3 | 1:48,041,019 | 639,186 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Spain | 2 | 1:23,376,018 | 128,922 |
| Afghanistan | 1 | 1:32,153,183 | 60,828 |
| Mongolia | 1 | 1:2,825,289 | 17,010 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Bhutan | 1 | 1:616,039 | 1,715 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Cyprus | 1 | 1:884,876 | 13,055 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
The alternate forms: Gâtu (8) are calculated separately.
Gatu (20,150) may also be a first name.
Gatu Demographics
Average Gatu Salary in
United States
$50,875 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Gatu Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gatu Come From? nationality or country of origin
Gatu (Hindi: गटू, Marathi: गटू, Oriya: ଗାଟୁ, Russian: Гату, Tibetan: དགའ་ཀྲུ།) has its highest incidence in Ethiopia. It can also occur in the variant forms: Gâtu. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Gatu? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 99,748th most frequently used last name globally. It is borne by around 1 in 1,536,809 people. This last name is mostly found in Africa, where 69 percent of Gatu are found; 68 percent are found in East Africa and 37 percent are found in Ethiosemitic Africa. It is also the 37,580th most prevalent first name internationally. It is borne by 20,150 people.
It is most frequently used in Ethiopia, where it is borne by 1,771 people, or 1 in 55,080. Beside Ethiopia Gatu is found in 36 countries. It is also common in Kenya, where 31 percent live and India, where 17 percent live.
Gatu Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those holding the Gatu surname is predominantly Christian (100%) in Kenya.
Gatu earn notably more than the average income. In United States they earn 17.91% more than the national average, earning $50,875 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Gatu Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Gatu in the Hindi language | ||
| गटू | gatu | 66.63 |
| गटु | gatu | 32.55 |
| गट्ू | gatu | 0.22 |
| गाटू | gatu | 0.12 |
| गतू | gatu | 0.07 |
| ग्ाटू | gatu | 0.06 |
| गतु | gatu | 0.06 |
| गट्ु | gatu | 0.03 |
| ग्ाटु | gatu | 0.03 |
| गाटु | gatu | 0.02 |
| गटुु | gatuu | 0.01 |
| गट्टू | gattu | 0.01 |
| Gatu in the Marathi language | ||
| गटू | gatu | 52.13 |
| गटु | gatu | 40.85 |
| गाटू | gatu | 1.49 |
| गातु | gatu | 1.28 |
| गतू | gatu | 0.85 |
| गातू | gatu | 0.43 |
| गतु | gatu | 0.43 |
| गाटु | gatu | 0.43 |
| गेाटु | geatu | 0.21 |
| घाटु | ghatu | 0.21 |
| गट | gata | 0.21 |
| घटु | ghatu | 0.21 |
| गेाटू | geatu | 0.21 |
| Gatu in the Oriya language | ||
| ଗାଟୁ | gatu | 50 |
| ଗାତୁ | gatu | 18.18 |
| ଗତୁ | gatu | 18.18 |
| ଗଟୁ | gatu | 13.64 |
| Gatu in the Tibetan language | ||
| དགའ་ཀྲུ། | gatru | 25 |
| དགའ་ཀྲུགས། | gatruk | 25 |
| དགའ་སྤྲུགས། | gatruk | 16.67 |
| དགའ་སྤྲུ། | gatru | 8.33 |
| དགའ་སྐྲུ་ | gatru | 8.33 |
| དགའ་སྤྲོ། | gatro | 8.33 |
| དགའ་ཀྲུག་ | gatruk | 8.33 |
| Gatu in the Russian language | ||
| Гату | gatu | - |
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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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- 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 Gatu
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