Pekey Surname
Approximately 771 people bear this surname
Pekey Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 729 | 1:181,412 | 17,466 |
| Turkey | 34 | 1:2,288,865 | 74,619 |
| India | 3 | 1:255,688,461 | 1,306,352 |
| Philippines | 3 | 1:33,746,074 | 302,898 |
| Bhutan | 1 | 1:616,039 | 1,715 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
Pekey (13) may also be a first name.
Pekey Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Pekey Come From? nationality or country of origin
Pekey (Tibetan: དཔལ་སྐྱིད།) is found most frequently in Indonesia. It may also occur in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Pekey? popularity and diffusion
Pekey is the 443,157th most numerous family name on a worldwide basis, held by around 1 in 9,452,070 people. The last name is primarily found in Oceania, where 86 percent of Pekey are found; 86 percent are found in Oceania Islands and 86 percent are found in Papuan Oceania. Pekey is also the 3,159,357th most prevalent first name in the world. It is borne by 13 people.
The last name Pekey is most commonly used in Indonesia, where it is borne by 729 people, or 1 in 181,412. In Indonesia Pekey is mostly concentrated in: Papua, where 91 percent live and Maluku, where 9 percent live. Beside Indonesia it exists in 5 countries. It also occurs in Turkey, where 4 percent live and India, where 0 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Pekey Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Pekey in the Tibetan language | ||
| དཔལ་སྐྱིད། | palkyi | 50 |
| སྤེལ་ཀེ། | pelké | 16.67 |
| པེ་སྐྱེས་ | pékyé | 16.67 |
| དཔལ་ཀྱིད། | palkyi | 16.67 |
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Pekey
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