Ottou Surname
Approximately 5,883 people bear this surname
Ottou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 5,195 | 1:3,998 | 475 |
| Togo | 420 | 1:17,257 | 5,159 |
| France | 92 | 1:721,986 | 90,334 |
| Ivory Coast | 75 | 1:307,616 | 11,461 |
| Belgium | 22 | 1:522,575 | 50,051 |
| Benin | 15 | 1:689,040 | 39,432 |
| Congo | 13 | 1:383,777 | 9,863 |
| Gabon | 9 | 1:209,910 | 2,378 |
| Nigeria | 7 | 1:25,306,108 | 327,793 |
| Canada | 5 | 1:7,369,118 | 289,406 |
| Papua New Guinea | 5 | 1:1,630,743 | 129,019 |
| England | 4 | 1:13,929,515 | 290,718 |
| Ghana | 4 | 1:6,755,173 | 15,406 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Switzerland | 3 | 1:2,737,638 | 105,941 |
| Sweden | 2 | 1:4,923,378 | 241,212 |
| Germany | 2 | 1:40,252,730 | 481,636 |
| Lebanon | 1 | 1:5,637,083 | 32,436 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| Costa Rica | 1 | 1:4,780,069 | 13,345 |
| Angola | 1 | 1:26,989,214 | 11,853 |
Ottou (232) may also be a first name.
Ottou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ottou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Ottou is more frequently found in Cameroon than any other country/territory. It may be rendered as:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Ottou? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 82,386th most numerous surname in the world It is held by approximately 1 in 1,238,747 people. This surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 97 percent of Ottou are found; 88 percent are found in Central Africa and 85 percent are found in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 588,797th most frequent first name on earth, held by 232 people.
The last name is most numerous in Cameroon, where it is held by 5,195 people, or 1 in 3,998. In Cameroon Ottou is primarily found in: Centre Region, where 78 percent are found, Littoral Region, where 8 percent are found and South Region, where 8 percent are found. Other than Cameroon this last name is found in 23 countries. It is also found in Togo, where 7 percent are found and France, where 2 percent are found.
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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 Ottou
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