Kotom Surname
Approximately 40 people bear this surname
Kotom Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 21 | 1:989,003 | 63,570 |
| Niger | 6 | 1:3,198,670 | 54,540 |
| Papua New Guinea | 4 | 1:2,038,429 | 140,827 |
| India | 2 | 1:383,532,691 | 1,645,216 |
| Nigeria | 2 | 1:88,571,379 | 625,098 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Kotom (84) may also be a first name.
Kotom Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kotom Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Kotom (Russian: Котом, Tibetan: ཀོ་ཏོམ།) has its highest incidence in Cameroon. It can appear in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of Kotom click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kotom? popularity and diffusion
The last name Kotom is the 3,100,440th most frequently held surname internationally, held by around 1 in 182,188,648 people. This surname is mostly found in Africa, where 78 percent of Kotom live; 70 percent live in West Africa and 60 percent live in Chadic Africa. It is also the 1,046,220th most widespread given name internationally, held by 84 people.
The surname is most commonly occurring in Cameroon, where it is borne by 21 people, or 1 in 989,003. In Cameroon it is most numerous in: Far North Region, where 86 percent are found, Centre Region, where 5 percent are found and East Region, where 5 percent are found. Barring Cameroon this surname is found in 9 countries. It is also common in Niger, where 15 percent are found and Papua New Guinea, where 10 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kotom Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kotom in the Tibetan language | ||
| ཀོ་ཏོམ། | kotom | 66.67 |
| ཀུ་ཏོམ། | kutom | 33.33 |
| Kotom in the Russian language | ||
| Котом | kotom | - |
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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 Kotom
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