Tatou Surname
Approximately 2,158 people bear this surname
Tatou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 645 | 1:32,200 | 4,342 |
| Morocco | 409 | 1:84,294 | 14,399 |
| Ivory Coast | 222 | 1:103,924 | 5,347 |
| Papua New Guinea | 164 | 1:49,718 | 6,230 |
| Benin | 160 | 1:64,598 | 7,911 |
| Mauritania | 157 | 1:26,082 | 2,232 |
| France | 99 | 1:670,937 | 86,003 |
| Niger | 87 | 1:220,598 | 7,246 |
| Algeria | 72 | 1:536,549 | 37,821 |
| Netherlands | 27 | 1:625,451 | 53,034 |
| Greece | 24 | 1:461,658 | 59,466 |
| Spain | 15 | 1:3,116,802 | 65,296 |
| Tunisia | 13 | 1:46,971 | 6,396 |
| England | 12 | 1:4,643,172 | 139,951 |
| Belgium | 12 | 1:958,054 | 73,966 |
| Congo | 6 | 1:831,516 | 16,072 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| India | 3 | 1:255,688,461 | 1,306,352 |
| Germany | 2 | 1:40,252,730 | 481,636 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Sweden | 2 | 1:4,923,378 | 241,212 |
| China | 2 | 1:683,660,783 | 30,601 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| Bahrain | 1 | 1:1,348,608 | 10,432 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 1:45,522,696 | 503,646 |
| Belarus | 1 | 1:9,501,059 | 159,228 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Chad | 1 | 1:13,592,199 | 13,092 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Niue | 1 | 1:1,614 | 145 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Mali | 1 | 1:16,969,035 | 4,067 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Lebanon | 1 | 1:5,637,083 | 32,436 |
| Jordan | 1 | 1:8,842,437 | 26,010 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| French Polynesia | 1 | 1:280,805 | 7,211 |
| Guinea | 1 | 1:11,833,817 | 3,268 |
The alternate forms: Tātou (1) are calculated separately.
Tatou (524) may also be a first name.
Tatou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Tatou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Tatou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺗﺎﺗﻮ) is found most frequently in Cameroon. It can also appear as a variant: Tātou. For other possible spellings of Tatou click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Tatou? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 194,677th most commonly held family name globally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 3,376,991 people. This last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 79 percent of Tatou live; 29 percent live in Central Africa and 29 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. Tatou is also the 368,711th most prevalent first name in the world, held by 524 people.
It is most frequently occurring in Cameroon, where it is borne by 645 people, or 1 in 32,200. In Cameroon Tatou is most common in: Centre Region, where 33 percent reside, Littoral Region, where 28 percent reside and West Region, where 20 percent reside. Beside Cameroon this last name is found in 40 countries. It also occurs in Morocco, where 19 percent reside and The Ivory Coast, where 10 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Tatou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Tatou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺗﺎﺗﻮ | tatw | 93.85 |
| ﺗﺎﺕ | tat | 4.62 |
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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 Tatou
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