Onguetou Surname

860,770th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 316 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Cameroon
Highest density in:
Cameroon

Onguetou Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Onguetou Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Cameroon3101:66,9978,459
Canada41:9,211,398321,528
Chad11:13,592,19913,092
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

Onguetou (23) may also be a first name.

Onguetou Last Name Facts

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

Onguetou is held by more people in Cameroon than any other country/territory. It can be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Onguetou? popularity and diffusion

The last name Onguetou is the 860,770th most frequently occurring family name globally It is held by approximately 1 in 23,061,854 people. It occurs predominantly in Africa, where 98 percent of Onguetou live; 98 percent live in Central Africa and 98 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 2,239,265th most numerous first name throughout the world, held by 23 people.

The last name Onguetou is most commonly used in Cameroon, where it is held by 310 people, or 1 in 66,997. In Cameroon Onguetou is most numerous in: Centre Region, where 85 percent reside, Littoral Region, where 10 percent reside and South Region, where 3 percent reside. Other than Cameroon this surname is found in 3 countries. It also occurs in Canada, where 1 percent reside and Chad, where 0 percent reside.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Ounguetou9436/
Ongetou932/
Ongeto8663/
Onengetu7521/
Ongietho7510/
Honguito751/
Angbetou751/
Ong'weto751/
Ongeta71765/
Angeto7192/
Ongito7190/
Onenngetu715/
Angetu713/
Houngbeto712/
Angueta671,325/
Ong'eta67517/
Ongetta6730/
Gongeta6722/
Anguito678/
Angethu674/
Onge'ta671/
Angbeto671/
Onenngettu671/
Angetoo671/
Angesto671/
Anqueto671/
Ongitho671/

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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 Onguetou
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