Ota Surname
Approximately 379,780 people bear this surname
Ota Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japan | 365,917 | 1:349 | 41 |
| Nigeria | 3,350 | 1:52,878 | 4,042 |
| United States | 2,801 | 1:129,403 | 13,654 |
| Brazil | 1,805 | 1:118,601 | 4,499 |
| India | 1,168 | 1:656,734 | 30,953 |
| Egypt | 1,037 | 1:88,656 | 7,732 |
| Indonesia | 660 | 1:200,378 | 18,998 |
| Thailand | 476 | 1:148,400 | 23,420 |
| Singapore | 270 | 1:20,399 | 813 |
| DR Congo | 246 | 1:300,323 | 27,390 |
| Hong Kong | 239 | 1:30,692 | 530 |
| Benin | 195 | 1:53,003 | 6,655 |
| Italy | 194 | 1:315,241 | 38,932 |
| Papua New Guinea | 165 | 1:49,416 | 6,181 |
| Saudi Arabia | 159 | 1:194,062 | 29,524 |
| Solomon Islands | 157 | 1:3,694 | 419 |
| Canada | 93 | 1:396,189 | 35,081 |
| Philippines | 71 | 1:1,425,890 | 102,315 |
| Australia | 70 | 1:385,653 | 31,598 |
| England | 69 | 1:807,508 | 43,459 |
| Peru | 57 | 1:557,616 | 14,875 |
| Germany | 43 | 1:1,872,220 | 105,027 |
| Zimbabwe | 39 | 1:395,852 | 35,770 |
| United Arab Emirates | 39 | 1:234,930 | 15,673 |
| Malaysia | 31 | 1:951,427 | 42,969 |
| Argentina | 30 | 1:1,424,780 | 80,162 |
| France | 29 | 1:2,290,439 | 180,028 |
| Czechia | 26 | 1:408,980 | 46,580 |
| Slovenia | 24 | 1:103,653 | 11,747 |
| Romania | 20 | 1:1,003,894 | 52,576 |
| Mexico | 20 | 1:6,206,310 | 32,158 |
| New Zealand | 20 | 1:226,416 | 21,878 |
| Afghanistan | 18 | 1:1,786,288 | 13,520 |
| Uganda | 18 | 1:2,168,849 | 67,754 |
| Poland | 17 | 1:2,235,809 | 104,965 |
| Taiwan | 17 | 1:1,379,103 | 9,281 |
| Spain | 16 | 1:2,922,002 | 63,384 |
| Switzerland | 16 | 1:513,307 | 36,405 |
| Israel | 14 | 1:611,260 | 42,949 |
| Netherlands | 13 | 1:1,299,014 | 73,030 |
| Paraguay | 9 | 1:804,083 | 8,568 |
| Austria | 9 | 1:946,159 | 70,786 |
| China | 7 | 1:195,331,652 | 10,124 |
| Norway | 6 | 1:857,048 | 55,549 |
| Qatar | 6 | 1:393,000 | 55,922 |
| Cameroon | 6 | 1:3,461,511 | 126,814 |
| Denmark | 6 | 1:940,786 | 47,603 |
| Scotland | 5 | 1:1,070,763 | 31,189 |
| South Africa | 5 | 1:10,835,541 | 204,227 |
| Sweden | 5 | 1:1,969,351 | 134,077 |
| Congo | 4 | 1:1,247,274 | 20,238 |
| Portugal | 4 | 1:2,604,560 | 16,079 |
| Ghana | 4 | 1:6,755,173 | 15,406 |
| Swaziland | 4 | 1:324,550 | 996 |
| Myanmar | 4 | 1:12,984,496 | 1,309 |
| Turkey | 3 | 1:25,940,474 | 162,557 |
| Belgium | 3 | 1:3,832,215 | 117,288 |
| Vietnam | 3 | 1:30,882,018 | 4,101 |
| Algeria | 3 | 1:12,877,184 | 84,902 |
| Venezuela | 2 | 1:15,102,038 | 69,873 |
| South Korea | 2 | 1:25,620,128 | 4,175 |
| Albania | 2 | 1:1,457,028 | 24,967 |
| Niger | 2 | 1:9,596,008 | 86,358 |
| Pakistan | 2 | 1:89,321,942 | 157,560 |
| Bolivia | 2 | 1:5,308,217 | 12,400 |
| Chile | 2 | 1:8,808,237 | 65,417 |
| Aruba | 1 | 1:103,477 | 2,586 |
| Yemen | 1 | 1:26,425,294 | 55,147 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:3,094,532 | 44,023 |
| Bangladesh | 1 | 1:159,356,773 | 26,077 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Cambodia | 1 | 1:15,487,146 | 14,824 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| Tunisia | 1 | 1:610,626 | 30,336 |
| Croatia | 1 | 1:4,228,604 | 99,289 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| Gabon | 1 | 1:1,889,194 | 6,814 |
| Gambia | 1 | 1:1,923,451 | 1,043 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Guam | 1 | 1:160,121 | 4,893 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
| Jordan | 1 | 1:8,842,437 | 26,010 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| Lebanon | 1 | 1:5,637,083 | 32,436 |
| Mauritius | 1 | 1:1,293,417 | 16,552 |
Ota (8,765) may also be a first name.
Ota Demographics
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Ota Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ota Come From? nationality or country of origin
Ota (Arabic: اوتا, Hindi: ओटा, Marathi: ओटा, Oriya: ଓତା, Tibetan: ཨོ་ཏ།) is found most in Japan. It may also be rendered as:. Click here to see other potential spellings of Ota.
How Common Is The Last Name Ota? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,418th most frequently used surname in the world. It is borne by around 1 in 19,189 people. Ota occurs mostly in Asia, where 97 percent of Ota live; 96 percent live in East Asia and 96 percent live in Nippono-Asia. Ota is also the 66,906th most prevalent given name in the world. It is borne by 8,765 people.
This last name is most frequent in Japan, where it is carried by 365,917 people, or 1 in 349. In Japan Ota is mostly concentrated in: Aichi Prefecture, where 10 percent live, Tokyo Metropolis, where 9 percent live and Kanagawa Prefecture, where 6 percent live. Besides Japan Ota exists in 86 countries. It also occurs in Nigeria, where 1 percent live and The United States, where 1 percent live.
Ota Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Ota surname are 19.42% more likely to be registered Democrats than the national average, with 72.65% registered with the political party.
The amount Ota earn in different countries varies greatly. In Norway they earn 8.67% more than the national average, earning 376,087 kr per year; in Peru they earn 231.1% more than the national average, earning S/. 64,184 per year; in United States they earn 13.9% more than the national average, earning $49,145 USD per year and in Canada they earn 5.17% more than the national average, earning $52,254 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Ota Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Ota in the Tibetan language | ||
| ཨོ་ཏ། | ota | - |
| Ota in the Oriya language | ||
| ଓତା | ota | 98.21 |
| ଓଟା | ota | 1.49 |
| ଓତ | ota | 0.3 |
| Ota in the Hindi language | ||
| ओटा | ota | 97.19 |
| ओता | ota | 1.4 |
| ोता | ota | 0.16 |
| Ota in the Marathi language | ||
| ओटा | ota | 80 |
| ओता | ota | 10 |
| ऑटा | ota | 10 |
| Ota in the Arabic language | ||
| اوتا | awta | - |
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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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- 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 Ota
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