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 last name Tatou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺗﺎﺗﻮ) is more commonly found in Cameroon than any other country or territory. It may be rendered as a variant: Tātou. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Tatou? popularity and diffusion
Tatou is the 194,677th most commonly held surname internationally. It is borne by around 1 in 3,376,991 people. This last name is mostly 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 common first name on earth, held by 524 people.
The last name is most commonly occurring in Cameroon, where it is carried by 645 people, or 1 in 32,200. In Cameroon it is mostly found in: Centre Region, where 33 percent live, Littoral Region, where 28 percent live and West Region, where 20 percent live. Aside from Cameroon this surname is found in 40 countries. It is also common 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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