Kotaru Surname

226,599th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 1,791 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
India
Highest density in:
Solomon Islands

Kotaru Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Kotaru Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
India1,6671:460,14723,636
United States591:6,143,372295,589
Solomon Islands191:30,5286,049
Papua New Guinea151:543,58166,712
Thailand101:7,063,834426,148
United Arab Emirates81:1,145,28440,289
Singapore41:1,376,92628,409
Oman21:1,843,9869,590
Brazil11:214,074,3321,693,628
Canada11:36,845,591464,108
England11:55,718,059489,080
Japan11:127,844,29373,547
New Zealand11:4,528,32355,372
Nigeria11:177,142,758748,972
Russia11:144,123,056881,408

Kotaru (127) may also be a first name.

Kotaru Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Kotaru Come From? nationality or country of origin

Kotaru (Hindi: कोटरू, Marathi: कोतरु) is carried by more people in India than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of Kotaru.

How Common Is The Last Name Kotaru? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 226,599th most commonly held last name on a worldwide basis It is held by around 1 in 4,068,982 people. The last name is primarily found in Asia, where 94 percent of Kotaru live; 93 percent live in South Asia and 93 percent live in Indo-South Asia. It is also the 825,494th most frequent first name globally It is held by 127 people.

Kotaru is most frequent in India, where it is held by 1,667 people, or 1 in 460,147. In India it is primarily found in: Andhra Pradesh, where 84 percent live, Telangana, where 11 percent live and Karnataka, where 2 percent live. Other than India this surname exists in 14 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 3 percent live and The Solomon Islands, where 1 percent live.

Kotaru Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those bearing the Kotaru last name are 36.56% more likely to be registered Republicans than The US average, with 83.33% registered to vote for the party.

Kotaru earn more than fifty percent more than the average income. In United States they earn 74.14% more than the national average, earning $75,140 USD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

Kotaru Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Kotaru in the Hindi language
कोटरूkotaru80
कोटरुkotaru20
Kotaru in the Marathi language
कोतरुkotaru25
कॉटरुkotaru25
कोटारूkotaru12.5
कोटरूkotaru12.5
कोटरुkotaru12.5
कोतkota12.5

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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 Kotaru
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