Pekam Surname
Approximately 590 people bear this surname
Pekam Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 294 | 1:70,643 | 8,863 |
| India | 283 | 1:2,710,478 | 84,163 |
| France | 3 | 1:22,140,907 | 385,998 |
| Papua New Guinea | 2 | 1:4,076,858 | 165,791 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Afghanistan | 1 | 1:32,153,183 | 60,828 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
Pekam (80) may also be a first name.
Pekam Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Pekam Come From? nationality or country of origin
Pekam (Marathi: पेकम, Russian: Пекам) is found most frequently in Cameroon. It can appear as a variant:. For other potential spellings of Pekam click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Pekam? popularity and diffusion
The surname Pekam is the 543,414th most commonly occurring family name globally, held by around 1 in 12,351,773 people. This last name is mostly found in Africa, where 50 percent of Pekam live; 49 percent live in Central Africa and 49 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 1,075,395th most frequently used first name on earth. It is borne by 80 people.
This surname is most widely held in Cameroon, where it is held by 294 people, or 1 in 70,643. In Cameroon Pekam is most frequent in: Littoral Region, where 40 percent live, Centre Region, where 36 percent live and West Region, where 17 percent live. Not including Cameroon it occurs in 10 countries. It is also common in India, where 48 percent live and France, where 1 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Pekam Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Pekam in the Marathi language | ||
| पेकम | pekama | 97.24 |
| पेकाम | pekama | 2.76 |
| Pekam in the Russian language | ||
| Пекам | pekam | - |
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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 Pekam
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