Kutom Surname

1,994,173rd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 88 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Papua New Guinea
Highest density in:
Papua New Guinea

Kutom Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Kutom Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Papua New Guinea581:140,58119,337
Indonesia131:10,173,015372,576
Malaysia71:4,213,461150,293
DR Congo41:18,469,892182,906
Ghana41:6,755,17315,406
Nigeria11:177,142,758748,972
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

Kutom (157) may also be a first name.

Kutom Last Name Facts

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

The last name Kutom (Tibetan: སྐུ་ཏོམ།) is held by more people in Papua New Guinea than any other country or territory. It can appear as:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Kutom? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 1,994,173rd most frequent family name on earth, borne by approximately 1 in 82,813,022 people. This last name is predominantly found in Oceania, where 66 percent of Kutom reside; 66 percent reside in Oceania Islands and 66 percent reside in Papuan Oceania. It is also the 732,696th most commonly held first name in the world, borne by 157 people.

The surname Kutom is most frequently used in Papua New Guinea, where it is carried by 58 people, or 1 in 140,581. In Papua New Guinea Kutom is most numerous in: Western, where 88 percent are found, Southern Highlands, where 10 percent are found and Madang, where 2 percent are found. Outside of Papua New Guinea this surname exists in 6 countries. It also occurs in Indonesia, where 15 percent are found and Malaysia, where 8 percent are found.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Kuthom91307/
Koutom9144/
Kutoum913/
Khutom913/
Kutome912/
Kuitom911/
Koutome8321/
Koutoum8312/
Keutoum832/
Khuthom831/
Kustome831/
Kudtoom831/
Kutum8022,785/
Kutam80203/
Kotom8040/
Kitom8021/
Cutom808/
Khutthom772/
Kuttomme771/
Kuutuome771/
Koutoumt771/
Koutoume771/
Kuittoum771/
Custom733,798/
Kutame73751/
Kautam73728/
Koutam73635/
Kuttum73353/
Kothom73277/
Kuthum73247/
Kottom7396/
Khutam7365/
Kuttam7351/
Kutume7336/
Kutham7329/
Kotoum7328/
Khutum7314/
Khotom7314/
Kutuim7310/
Kutuum733/
Koutum733/
Quitom733/
Kudtum732/
Kautum732/
Kutumm732/
Cautom732/
Cutome731/
Kuetam731/
Kuitum731/
Coutom731/
Kithom731/
Kuitam731/
Cuttom731/
Kuutam731/
Khoutam67310/
Koethom6713/
Cauthom677/
Kutthum677/
Koutame673/
Koutham673/
Kouttum672/
Kautham672/
Custome671/
Khitoum671/
Khotoom671/
Khottom671/
Kuthtam671/
Khuitam671/
Khuttam671/
Khautum671/
Kauttam671/
Kiethom671/

Kutom Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Kutom in the Tibetan language
སྐུ་ཏོམ།kutom40
ཀུ་ཏོམ།kutom20
སྐུ་སྟོམ།kutom10
སྐུ་ཏམ།kutam10
སྐུ་གཏོངམོ།kutongmo10
སྐོ་ཏོམ།kotom10

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Footnotes

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  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Kutom
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