Pepê
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Pepê is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Latin piper, from Ancient Greek πέπερι (péperi, “pepper”), via Middle Persian from an Indo-Aryan source.
- 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
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Pepe in ES Spain, PE Peru, PH Philippines and 3 more.
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)
- Latinpiper(measured from records)
- Ancient Greekπέπεριpéperi“pepper”(measured from records)
- Middle Persianfrom(measured from records)
From Latin piper, from Ancient Greek πέπερι (péperi, “pepper”), via Middle Persian from an Indo-Aryan source.
Sources 6
- A concise dictionary of first names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 30 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pepê 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pepê mean, and where does it come from?
- From Latin piper, from Ancient Greek πέπερι (péperi, “pepper”), via Middle Persian from an Indo-Aryan source. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 4 other sources.
- In which country does Pepê have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.6 thousand people named Pepê in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pepe.
- How common is the name Pepê?
- In Spain, the national register counted 2,562 people named Pepê, about 1 in 20 thousand residents.
- How common is Pepê compared with other names?
- In Bolivia, Pepê is the 194th most common given name of 14,891 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pep%C3%AAThe 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, “Pepê” — the 194th most common given name in Bolivia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.