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
Ottou occurs most in Cameroon. It may also occur in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Ottou? popularity and diffusion
The last name Ottou is the 82,386th most frequently occurring family name internationally, borne by around 1 in 1,238,747 people. The surname is primarily 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. Ottou is also the 588,797th most widespread first name throughout the world, held by 232 people.
The surname Ottou is most widespread in Cameroon, where it is carried by 5,195 people, or 1 in 3,998. In Cameroon Ottou is most frequent in: Centre Region, where 78 percent reside, Littoral Region, where 8 percent reside and South Region, where 8 percent reside. Without taking into account Cameroon this last name is found in 23 countries. It also occurs in Togo, where 7 percent reside and France, where 2 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
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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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