Oteme Surname
Approximately 602 people bear this surname
Oteme Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 311 | 1:569,591 | 27,605 |
| Ivory Coast | 212 | 1:108,827 | 5,531 |
| Cameroon | 55 | 1:377,619 | 33,137 |
| Papua New Guinea | 20 | 1:407,686 | 53,132 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
The alternate forms: Otémé (1) are calculated separately.
Oteme (35) may also be a first name.
Oteme Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Oteme Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Oteme is found most in Nigeria. It may also appear in the variant forms: Otémé. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Oteme? popularity and diffusion
Oteme is the 535,476th most commonly used family name throughout the world, borne by approximately 1 in 12,105,558 people. The surname Oteme is primarily found in Africa, where 82 percent of Oteme live; 72 percent live in West Africa and 72 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 1,744,716th most frequently held first name at a global level. It is borne by 35 people.
The last name is most commonly used in Nigeria, where it is borne by 311 people, or 1 in 569,591. In Nigeria Oteme is most frequent in: Delta, where 82 percent live, Edo, where 10 percent live and Benue, where 3 percent live. Excluding Nigeria it is found in 7 countries. It is also found in The Ivory Coast, where 35 percent live and Cameroon, where 9 percent live.
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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 Oteme
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