Pepo

given name · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/pipoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Pepo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bulgaria than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 157K(measured from records)
  • BGBulgaria≈1 in 158Kas Пепо
  • KZKazakhstan≈1 in 11Mas Пепо

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Pepo 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.

Bulgaria (inferred from the name graph)

≈44 named Пепо, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
29 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 157K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

PepoLatin(measured from records)
ПепоCyrillic(measured from records)

Locally spelled Пепо in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan.

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.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Pepo 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 Pepo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BG Bulgaria≈44 est.≈1 in 158K—Pepo24
HR Croatia271 in 157K27Pepo10
RU Russia≈9 est.≈1 in 16M—Пепо29
UA Ukraine≈2 est.≈1 in 27M—Пепо6
KZ Kazakhstan≈2 est.≈1 in 11M—Пепо8

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). 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)

Pepo is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Philippines, Spain

    Also written Pepon, Pépo, Pépon, Pèpo, Pěpó

38 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Pepo is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A fruit of plants of the gourd family Cucurbitaceae, possessing a hard rind and producing many seeds in a single, central, pulpy chamber.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Italian, first-person singular present indicative of pepare

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Czech, vocative singular of Pepa

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Esperanto, a chirp, peep, twitter

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latin, melon (picked ripe)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Swahili, spirit, demon

    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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

100012001400160018002000Pepo, b. 1050Pepo Frick, b. 1952Pepo Puch, b. 1966Pepo Suevos, b. 1971Pepo Scherman, b. 1971Pepo, b. 1982

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

Informalمرحباً Pepo،Hi Pepo, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 12 sources across 8 countries.

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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

How do you pronounce Pepo?
A machine transcription gives /pipoʊ/ (IPA) for Arabic.
Is Pepo a male or female name?
Pepo is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Pepo have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 44 people named Пепо in Bulgaria, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Pepo most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pepo is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 157 thousand people — even though Bulgaria holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Pepo?
In Croatia, the national register counted 27 people named Pepo in 2021, about 1 in 157 thousand residents.

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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pepo

The 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, “Pepo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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