Pepe
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: a diminutive of the male given name Josepe, variant of José
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Pepe is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PEPeru≈1 in 4.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- CLChile≈1 in 6K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 13K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 215 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Peru, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a diminutive of the male given name Josepe, variant of José
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 30 languages in the etymology graph.
How Pepe is read(measured from records)
Pepe is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish78%
a diminutive of the male given name Josepe, variant of José
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English8.5%
An image or depiction of the Pepe the Frog character.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pepe 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈8,600 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Pepe | 37 |
| PE Peru | #763 | ≈7,600 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | — | Pepe | 69 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 1 | Pepe | 51 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 6K | 1 | Pepe | 54 |
| ES Spain | #303 | 2,562 | 1 in 20K | 2.6K | Pepe | 158 |
| BO Bolivia | #194 | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | — | Pepe | 29 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); the co-datosgov-candidates register; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Pepe is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
hypocoristic of Josef/Giuseppe
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Italian, do lat. piper; produtor e vendedor de pimenta
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In German, männl. Vom., spanische Koseform (Lallform) von José (
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Pet form of José.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Pepe Sorianob. 1929ARArgentine actor and writer (1929-2023)
- Pepe Fernandezb. 1943UYUruguayan footballer
- Pepe Sernab. 1944USNative Mexican-American character actor and artist
- Pepe Romerob. 1944ESSpanish musician (born 1944)
- Pepe Habichuelab. 1944ESSpanish flamenco guitarist
- Pepe Danquartb. 1955DEGerman filmmaker and screenwriter
- Pepe Hozumib. 1958JPJapanese actor
- Pepe Ociob. 1976ESSpanish actor
- Pepe Julian Onziemab. 1980UGUgandan LGBT rights activist
- Pepeb. 1983BRPortuguese association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 71 sources across 35 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 2.6K | #1,463 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 2.1K | #751 |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2008 | 1 | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 1 | #120 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pepe mean, and where does it come from?
- a diminutive of the male given name Josepe, variant of José Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Pepe have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.6 thousand people named Pepe in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pepe.
- Is Pepe a male or female name?
- Pepe 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.
- What are other forms of the name Pepe?
- In the etymology graph, Joseph, Joe and Yusuf are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of José.
- How common is the name Pepe?
- In Spain, the national register counted 2,562 people named Pepe, about 1 in 20 thousand residents.
- How common is Pepe compared with other names?
- In Bolivia, Pepe is the 194th most common given name of 14,891 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pepeThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Pepe” — the 194th most common given name in Bolivia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.