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Family name Penev (Penev
, Пенев
, פנב
) , all around the world, is a common last name. The cognomen Penev is characteristic of Bulgaria, where it is a common surname, North Macedonia, where it is quite a rare surname, and Serbia. Not in comparison with a country's population, it most frequently occurs in Bulgaria, Serbia, and Greece. Very seldom, Penev is the forename as well as the last name.