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
The last name Kotou is most common in The Ivory Coast. It can also occur as a variant:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Kotou? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 912,827th most commonly held family name at a global level It is held by approximately 1 in 25,043,113 people. Kotou is predominantly found in Africa, where 64 percent of Kotou live; 62 percent live in West Africa and 61 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 345,974th most commonly used first name worldwide. It is borne by 585 people.
The surname is most widespread in The Ivory Coast, where it is carried by 197 people, or 1 in 117,113. In The Ivory Coast it is most numerous in: Lagunes District, where 45 percent are found, Abidjan Autonomous District, where 39 percent are found and Gôh-Djiboua District, where 7 percent are found. Apart from The Ivory Coast Kotou is found in 11 countries. It is also found in Benin, where 19 percent are found and Indonesia, where 4 percent are found.
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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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