Pekai Surname
Approximately 116 people bear this surname
Pekai Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 69 | 1:118,170 | 16,048 |
| Nigeria | 24 | 1:7,380,948 | 165,663 |
| Ukraine | 9 | 1:5,058,077 | 228,455 |
| Indonesia | 5 | 1:26,449,839 | 597,308 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| Pakistan | 2 | 1:89,321,942 | 157,560 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Slovakia | 1 | 1:5,336,450 | 140,422 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1:15,438,240 | 133,260 |
Pekai (40) may also be a first name.
Pekai Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Pekai Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Pekai (Marathi: पेकई) is found in Papua New Guinea more than any other country or territory. It can also be found as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Pekai? popularity and diffusion
The surname Pekai is the 1,691,963rd most commonly held family name world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 62,823,672 people. The last name is mostly found in Oceania, where 64 percent of Pekai live; 64 percent live in Oceania Islands and 64 percent live in Papuan Oceania. Pekai is also the 1,614,485th most frequently held forename world-wide, borne by 40 people.
The last name Pekai is most widely held in Papua New Guinea, where it is carried by 69 people, or 1 in 118,170. In Papua New Guinea it is most frequent in: West Sepik, where 54 percent reside, Morobe, where 26 percent reside and Bougainville, where 7 percent reside. Without taking into account Papua New Guinea this last name occurs in 8 countries. It also occurs in Nigeria, where 21 percent reside and Ukraine, where 8 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Pekai Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Pekai in the Marathi language | ||
| पेकई | peka'i | - |
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Pekai
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