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
Oteme is held by more people in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It can appear in the variant forms: Otémé. Click here to see other potential spellings of Oteme.
How Common Is The Last Name Oteme? popularity and diffusion
The last name Oteme is the 535,476th most prevalent surname globally. It is borne by around 1 in 12,105,558 people. The last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 82 percent of Oteme reside; 72 percent reside in West Africa and 72 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 1,744,716th most frequent given name world-wide. It is borne by 35 people.
This last name is most widely held in Nigeria, where it is held by 311 people, or 1 in 569,591. In Nigeria it is most common in: Delta, where 82 percent reside, Edo, where 10 percent reside and Benue, where 3 percent reside. Beside Nigeria it occurs in 7 countries. It is also found in The Ivory Coast, where 35 percent reside and Cameroon, where 9 percent reside.
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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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