Pepito
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A sandwich of Spanish origin and popular in Latin America, made with beef, pork, or chicken
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pɛpitoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pepito is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 2.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 217K
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 18K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 112 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈45,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
A sandwich of Spanish origin and popular in Latin America, made with beef, pork, or chicken.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 30 languages in the etymology graph.
How Pepito is read(measured from records)
Pepito is one spelling over 3 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.
- English62%
A sandwich of Spanish origin and popular in Latin America, made with beef, pork, or chicken.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish22%
a small sandwich with meat
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese5.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Pepito in Portuguese.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Pepito 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 | #345 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | 21K | Pepito | 63 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Pepito | 14 |
| US United States | — | 435 | 1 in 765K | 499 | Pepito | 112 |
| FR France | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 217K | listed | Pepito | 88 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 173K | — | Pepito | 30 |
| CM Cameroon | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 100K | — | Pepito | 3 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 171K | — | Pepito | 5 |
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: Top 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)
Pepito is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Spanish pet form, usually of José.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In Cebuano, a diminutive of the male given name Jose
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 27 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 499 | #46,089 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 435 | #48,530 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 279 | #66,274 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Pepito mean, and where does it come from?
- A sandwich of Spanish origin and popular in Latin America, made with beef, pork, or chicken. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Pepito?
- A machine transcription gives /pɛpitoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Pepito?
- In the etymology graph, Pino, Yusup and Joos are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Pepito have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 45 thousand people named Pepito in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pepito.
- How common is the name Pepito?
- In the United States, the national register counted 435 people named Pepito in 2010, about 1 in 765 thousand residents.
- How common is Pepito compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Pepito is the 345th most common surname of 876,464 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Pepito?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pepitoThe 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, “Pepito” — the 345th most common surname in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.