Otoma Surname
Approximately 466 people bear this surname
Otoma Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 190 | 1:932,330 | 40,120 |
| Uganda | 173 | 1:225,661 | 17,396 |
| DR Congo | 27 | 1:2,736,280 | 122,818 |
| Papua New Guinea | 27 | 1:301,990 | 40,635 |
| Japan | 26 | 1:4,917,088 | 38,984 |
| England | 10 | 1:5,571,806 | 158,774 |
| Kenya | 9 | 1:5,131,100 | 45,516 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:3,094,532 | 44,023 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 1:12,554,671 | 503,821 |
Otoma (72) may also be a first name.
Otoma Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Otoma Come From? nationality or country of origin
Otoma is borne by more people in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It can appear as a variant:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Otoma? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 649,026th most commonly occurring surname worldwide It is held by around 1 in 15,638,511 people. The last name Otoma is primarily found in Africa, where 86 percent of Otoma reside; 41 percent reside in West Africa and 41 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 1,143,416th most frequently held first name in the world. It is borne by 72 people.
It is most commonly used in Nigeria, where it is borne by 190 people, or 1 in 932,330. In Nigeria it is mostly found in: Rivers, where 41 percent reside, Delta, where 36 percent reside and Lagos, where 9 percent reside. Apart from Nigeria this surname exists in 10 countries. It also occurs in Uganda, where 37 percent reside and The DR Congo, where 6 percent reside.
Otoma Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Otoma has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people carrying the Otoma surname fell 75 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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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 Otoma
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