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
Kotom (Russian: Котом, Tibetan: ཀོ་ཏོམ།) has its highest incidence in Cameroon. It may also appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of Kotom.
How Common Is The Last Name Kotom? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 3,100,440th most frequently occurring surname throughout the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 182,188,648 people. Kotom is mostly found in Africa, where 78 percent of Kotom live; 70 percent live in West Africa and 60 percent live in Chadic Africa. Kotom is also the 1,046,220th most commonly held given name throughout the world, borne by 84 people.
This last name is most prevalent in Cameroon, where it is borne by 21 people, or 1 in 989,003. In Cameroon Kotom is most common in: Far North Region, where 86 percent reside, Centre Region, where 5 percent reside and East Region, where 5 percent reside. Apart from Cameroon Kotom is found in 9 countries. It is also common in Niger, where 15 percent reside and Papua New Guinea, where 10 percent reside.
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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- 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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