Kutu Surname
Approximately 9,123 people bear this surname
Kutu Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 3,422 | 1:15,832 | 1,999 |
| DR Congo | 1,526 | 1:48,414 | 5,862 |
| Ghana | 1,178 | 1:22,938 | 2,795 |
| Turkey | 760 | 1:102,397 | 8,878 |
| Nepal | 546 | 1:52,163 | 1,537 |
| Indonesia | 468 | 1:282,584 | 25,396 |
| Nigeria | 419 | 1:422,775 | 21,904 |
| Liberia | 269 | 1:16,389 | 1,702 |
| Papua New Guinea | 166 | 1:49,119 | 6,132 |
| Lesotho | 96 | 1:21,172 | 4,383 |
| India | 87 | 1:8,816,843 | 179,063 |
| Kenya | 75 | 1:615,732 | 28,396 |
| Malaysia | 37 | 1:797,141 | 36,924 |
| Solomon Islands | 15 | 1:38,669 | 7,565 |
| England | 9 | 1:6,190,895 | 170,599 |
| Zimbabwe | 7 | 1:2,205,463 | 97,905 |
| Uganda | 7 | 1:5,577,040 | 114,218 |
| United States | 6 | 1:60,409,822 | 1,028,827 |
| Bangladesh | 4 | 1:39,839,193 | 17,324 |
| Russia | 4 | 1:36,030,764 | 577,589 |
| Australia | 3 | 1:8,998,567 | 200,784 |
| Canada | 2 | 1:18,422,796 | 409,488 |
| Argentina | 1 | 1:42,743,414 | 282,706 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Turkmenistan | 1 | 1:5,489,112 | 11,427 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| New Caledonia | 1 | 1:276,223 | 10,363 |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 1:6,978,905 | 86,260 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
The alternate forms: Kutú (1) are calculated separately.
Kutu (3,263) may also be a first name.
Kutu Demographics
Average Kutu Salary in
South Africa
R 150,108
Per year
Average Salary in
South Africa
R 237,638
Per year
Kutu Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kutu Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Kutu (Bengali: কুটু, Hindi: कुटू, Marathi: कुटु, Oriya: କୁଟୁ, Russian: Куту, Tibetan: ཀུ་ཏུ།) is borne by more people in South Africa than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered as a variant: Kutú. Click here for other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Kutu? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 55,649th most prevalent surname worldwide, held by around 1 in 798,810 people. The last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 77 percent of Kutu reside; 39 percent reside in Southern Africa and 39 percent reside in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 125,357th most prevalent first name world-wide, borne by 3,263 people.
The surname is most frequent in South Africa, where it is carried by 3,422 people, or 1 in 15,832. In South Africa it is most common in: Gauteng, where 38 percent are found, Limpopo, where 18 percent are found and Eastern Cape, where 16 percent are found. Aside from South Africa Kutu exists in 38 countries. It also occurs in The DR Congo, where 17 percent are found and Ghana, where 13 percent are found.
Kutu Last Name Statistics demography
Kutu earn a lot less than the average income. In South Africa they earn 36.83% less than the national average, earning R 150,108 per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kutu Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kutu in the Bengali language | ||
| কুটু | kutu | 91.89 |
| কুতু | kutu | 5.41 |
| কুটুরানী | kuturani | 2.7 |
| Kutu in the Marathi language | ||
| कुटु | kutu | 68.97 |
| कुटू | kutu | 13.79 |
| कुतु | kutu | 10.34 |
| कूटू | kutu | 3.45 |
| कुतू | kutu | 3.45 |
| Kutu in the Oriya language | ||
| କୁଟୁ | kutu | 67.42 |
| କୁତୁ | kutu | 26.97 |
| କୁଟୂ | kutu | 4.49 |
| କୂଟୂ | kutu | 1.12 |
| Kutu in the Hindi language | ||
| कुटू | kutu | 57.97 |
| कुटु | kutu | 18.84 |
| कूटू | kutu | 11.59 |
| कुतु | kutu | 7.25 |
| कुतू | kutu | 1.45 |
| कुट्टू | kuttu | 1.45 |
| कूतू | kutu | 1.45 |
| Kutu in the Tibetan language | ||
| ཀུ་ཏུ། | kutu | 50 |
| ཀུ་ཏུ་མོ། | kutumo | 50 |
| Kutu in the Russian language | ||
| Куту | kutu | - |
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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 Kutu
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