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
The surname Tatou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺗﺎﺗﻮ) occurs more in Cameroon more than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as: Tātou. Click here for other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Tatou? popularity and diffusion
The last name Tatou is the 194,677th most frequently occurring family name world-wide, borne by around 1 in 3,376,991 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 79 percent of Tatou reside; 29 percent reside in Central Africa and 29 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 368,711th most frequently held first name world-wide, held by 524 people.
Tatou is most frequently occurring in Cameroon, where it is held by 645 people, or 1 in 32,200. In Cameroon it is most numerous in: Centre Region, where 33 percent live, Littoral Region, where 28 percent live and West Region, where 20 percent live. Outside of Cameroon it exists in 40 countries. It also occurs in Morocco, where 19 percent live and The Ivory Coast, where 10 percent live.
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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