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Across the world, เป็น (Are , Pen , Tobe ) is a common unisex first name. The first name เป็น is habitual in Iraq, where it is quite a rare principally boy's, but very infrequently feminine name, Nigeria, where it is quite a rare gender-neutral name, and Norway, where it is quite a rare masculine name. Measured by absolute frequency, it is the most numerous in Nigeria, India, and Iraq. Also, เป็น is the last name as well as the forename.
เป็น is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Pen Gwyn , the red-white-and-green penguin mascot of Urdd Gobaith Cymru.