Pëpë

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Pëpë is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Latin piper, from Ancient Greek πέπερι (péperi, “pepper”), via Middle Persian from an Indo-Aryan source.

  • ECEcuador≈1 in 4Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
  • BOBolivia≈1 in 4.4Kfew records
  • PEPeru≈1 in 4.6K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Mexico (inferred from the name graph)

≈19,000 people, est.

Record sources
215 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 4.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Ecuador, est.

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 Pepe in MX Mexico, ES Spain, PE Peru and 5 more.

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)
Derivation of Pëpë: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Pëpë
  1. Latinpiper(measured from records)
  2. Ancient Greekπέπεριpéperi“pepper”(measured from records)
  3. Middle Persianfrom(measured from records)

From Latin piper, from Ancient Greek πέπερι (péperi, “pepper”), via Middle Persian from an Indo-Aryan source.

Cited for this meaning 6

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary
  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
  • Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

Attested across 30 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Pëpë 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 Pëpë is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MX Mexico#645≈19,000 est.≈1 in 6.7K9Pepe111
PE Peru#763≈7,500 est.≈1 in 4.6K—Pepe69
PH Philippines—≈6,800 est.≈1 in 17K—Pepe37
CO Colombia—≈4,600 est.≈1 in 11K1Pepe51
EC Ecuador—≈4,500 est.≈1 in 4K1Pepe37
CL Chile—≈3,900 est.≈1 in 5.1K1Pepe54
BO Bolivia#194≈2,800 est.≈1 in 4.4K—Pepe29
ES Spain#3032,5621 in 20K2.6KPepe158

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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); the co-datosgov-candidates register; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024). 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)

Pëpë is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name37 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Spain, Philippines

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Pepe, Pépé, Pepé, Pepè, Pepe'

  • French given name20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Belgium

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Pepe, Pépé, Pèpe, Pêpe, Pépe

  • Lao given name33 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, Thailand, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written Pepe, Papa, Pep, เปเป้, Pepé

  • Turkish given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Türkiye, Peru, United States

    Languages: Turkish, Uzbek, Azerbaijani

    Also written Pepe, Pépé, Pepé, Pepè

  • Indonesian given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, Spain, Peru

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Pepe, Pepé, Pepè, Pépé

  • Estonian given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Finland, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Estonian, Finnish

    Also written Pepe, Pepé, Pépé

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 Pëpë 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 Pëpë mean, and where does it come from?
From Latin piper, from Ancient Greek πέπερι (péperi, “pepper”), via Middle Persian from an Indo-Aryan source. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 4 other sources.
Is Pëpë a male or female name?
Pëpë is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
Which countries have the most people named Pëpë?
Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Pëpë in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pepe. After it come Peru, Philippines, Colombia and Ecuador; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Pëpë?
In Spain, the national register counted 2,562 people named Pëpë, about 1 in 20 thousand residents.
How common is Pëpë compared with other names?
In Mexico, Pëpë is the 645th most common given name of 193,485 given names recorded there.

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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, “Pëpë” — the 645th most common given name in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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