Péke

given name · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Péke is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from English Becky and Betty.

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 279K(measured from records)

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Netherlands (measured from records)

62 people

Sources
7 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 279K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Peke in IN India.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Borrowed from English Becky and Betty.

Sources 1

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Péke counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Péke is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NL Netherlands621 in 279K56—1
IN India——6Peke7
PG Papua New Guinea——3——
NA Namibia——1——

62 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022); ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Péke is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Netherlands, Nigeria

    Languages: English, Dutch, German

    Also written Peke

  • Spanish given name14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Mexico, Spain, Argentina, Colombia

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Peke, Pëkë, P̶e̶k̶e̶, Pêkê, Pêkë

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Péke under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Péke mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from English Becky and Betty. Recorded by Wiktionary.
Is Péke a male or female name?
Péke is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Péke have the most bearers?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 62 people named Péke, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Péke most common?
Péke is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 279 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Péke?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 62 people named Péke, about 1 in 279 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Péke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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