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།) occurs in Indonesia more than any other country/territory. It can be found in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Pekey? popularity and diffusion
The surname Pekey is the 443,157th most widespread surname in the world It is held by around 1 in 9,452,070 people. It occurs predominantly in Oceania, where 86 percent of Pekey live; 86 percent live in Oceania Islands and 86 percent live in Papuan Oceania. Pekey is also the 3,159,357th most widely held first name on earth, borne by 13 people.
Pekey is most commonly occurring in Indonesia, where it is carried by 729 people, or 1 in 181,412. In Indonesia Pekey is mostly found in: Papua, where 91 percent are found and Maluku, where 9 percent are found. Beside Indonesia Pekey occurs in 5 countries. It is also found in Turkey, where 4 percent are found and India, where 0 percent are found.
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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