Kotou Surname
Approximately 291 people bear this surname
Kotou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 197 | 1:117,113 | 5,838 |
| Benin | 55 | 1:187,920 | 18,137 |
| Indonesia | 11 | 1:12,022,654 | 410,938 |
| Papua New Guinea | 11 | 1:741,247 | 83,447 |
| Cameroon | 6 | 1:3,461,511 | 126,814 |
| Czechia | 3 | 1:3,544,490 | 144,714 |
| Greece | 2 | 1:5,539,895 | 129,142 |
| Niger | 2 | 1:9,596,008 | 86,358 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
Kotou (585) may also be a first name.
Kotou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kotou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kotou is held by more people in The Ivory Coast than any other country or territory. It may appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of Kotou.
How Common Is The Last Name Kotou? popularity and diffusion
The surname Kotou is the 912,827th most frequently held last name internationally, borne by approximately 1 in 25,043,113 people. The last name Kotou is primarily found in Africa, where 64 percent of Kotou are found; 62 percent are found in West Africa and 61 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Kotou is also the 345,974th most widespread given name on earth, held by 585 people.
It is most common in The Ivory Coast, where it is borne by 197 people, or 1 in 117,113. In The Ivory Coast Kotou is primarily found in: Lagunes District, where 45 percent reside, Abidjan Autonomous District, where 39 percent reside and Gôh-Djiboua District, where 7 percent reside. Outside of The Ivory Coast this surname is found in 11 countries. It is also found in Benin, where 19 percent reside and Indonesia, where 4 percent reside.
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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 Kotou
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