Family name Otava (Ottawa 
, Otava 
) , around the world, is quite a rare last name. The cognomen Otava is characteristic of Czechia, where it is quite a rare surname, Finland, and Latvia. In absolute terms, it is commonest in Czechia, Finland, and Canada. Much less frequently, Otava is the forename as well as the last name.
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| Ottawa | Canada, Czechia, Poland, Kenya, Germany |
| Otava | Canada, Czechia, Romania, Finland, Germany |
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zdeněk otava Czech music educator, opera singer and university educator, CZ (b. 1902) |
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| josef otava (b. 1872) |
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merja otava Finnish writer, FI (b. 1935) |
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| josef otava CZ (b. 1876) |
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| hugo otava Finnish painter (1889-1967), FI (b. 1889) |
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petr otava Czech businessman (1974), CZ (b. 1974) |
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| josef otava (b. 1919) |
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| alois otava (b. 1922) |
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| rudolf otava (b. 1927) |
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| zdeněk otava CZ (b. 1929) |
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| antonín otava CZ (b. 1932) |
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| petr otava Czech entrepreneur (1950-2015), CZ (b. 1950) |
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| jiří otava CZ (b. 1950) |
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| jan otava CZ (b. 1950) |
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| martin otava Czech director, CZ (b. 1963) |
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