Mpesa
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Mpesa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 5.7Kas Peša(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 48Kas Peša
- CHSwitzerland1 in 210Kas Pesa
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Mpesa itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Croatia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 8 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.7K (inferred from the name graph)
748 named Peša, 2021
Reference-verified
Croatia, as Peša
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Pesa in US United States.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mpesa 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | 748as Peša | 1 in 5.7K | 748 | — | — |
| US United States | 480as Pesa | 1 in 693K | 494 | Pesa | 5 |
| CZ Czechia | 223as Peša | 1 in 48K | 223 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 169as Pesa | 1 in 269K | 169 | — | — |
| IN India | 89as Pesa | 1 in 15M | 89 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 40as Pesa | 1 in 210K | 40 | — | 1 |
748 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; MVČR — living population register 2017; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Mpesa is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Nyanja, grapevine, grape plant
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Mpesa have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 748 people named Peša, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Mpesa most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Mpesa itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Croatia's: the national register counts about 1 in 5.7 thousand people named Peša.
- How common is the name Mpesa?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 748 people named Peša in 2021, about 1 in 5.7 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Mpesa?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mpesaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Mpesa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.