Pema Surname
Approximately 7,977 people bear this surname
Pema Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| India | 4,674 | 1:164,113 | 10,190 |
| Bhutan | 928 | 1:664 | 89 |
| Albania | 477 | 1:6,109 | 1,158 |
| Benin | 391 | 1:26,434 | 3,526 |
| South Africa | 349 | 1:155,237 | 17,537 |
| Papua New Guinea | 198 | 1:41,180 | 5,013 |
| United States | 193 | 1:1,878,026 | 122,158 |
| DR Congo | 130 | 1:568,304 | 43,658 |
| Botswana | 110 | 1:19,881 | 3,945 |
| Nigeria | 78 | 1:2,271,061 | 76,915 |
| England | 70 | 1:795,972 | 43,050 |
| Argentina | 50 | 1:854,868 | 55,754 |
| Indonesia | 43 | 1:3,075,563 | 171,061 |
| Cameroon | 41 | 1:506,563 | 40,818 |
| Ivory Coast | 33 | 1:699,128 | 19,606 |
| Uganda | 22 | 1:1,774,513 | 60,490 |
| Canada | 22 | 1:1,674,800 | 111,190 |
| Thailand | 18 | 1:3,924,352 | 328,346 |
| Zimbabwe | 15 | 1:1,029,216 | 63,831 |
| Switzerland | 14 | 1:586,637 | 40,624 |
| Brazil | 11 | 1:19,461,303 | 329,560 |
| Russia | 10 | 1:14,412,306 | 394,810 |
| Qatar | 9 | 1:262,000 | 30,726 |
| New Zealand | 8 | 1:566,040 | 34,598 |
| Greece | 7 | 1:1,582,827 | 88,377 |
| Australia | 6 | 1:4,499,284 | 146,780 |
| Mexico | 6 | 1:20,687,701 | 53,861 |
| Sweden | 6 | 1:1,641,126 | 116,183 |
| China | 5 | 1:273,464,313 | 13,838 |
| Philippines | 5 | 1:20,247,645 | 262,352 |
| Tanzania | 5 | 1:10,588,323 | 75,430 |
| Italy | 5 | 1:12,231,338 | 126,430 |
| Malaysia | 4 | 1:7,373,556 | 230,001 |
| Togo | 4 | 1:1,811,942 | 8,122 |
| Peru | 4 | 1:7,946,031 | 41,846 |
| Germany | 3 | 1:26,835,153 | 452,368 |
| Niger | 2 | 1:9,596,008 | 86,358 |
| Poland | 2 | 1:19,004,374 | 199,659 |
| Venezuela | 2 | 1:15,102,038 | 69,873 |
| Belgium | 2 | 1:5,748,322 | 130,559 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Croatia | 1 | 1:4,228,604 | 99,289 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:3,094,532 | 44,023 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Dominican Republic | 1 | 1:10,432,932 | 36,508 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| Cyprus | 1 | 1:884,876 | 13,055 |
| Malawi | 1 | 1:17,119,109 | 34,144 |
| Mongolia | 1 | 1:2,825,289 | 17,010 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Solomon Islands | 1 | 1:580,029 | 22,243 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Nepal | 1 | 1:28,480,956 | 22,413 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
The alternate forms: Péma (10) are calculated separately.
Pema (85,431) may also be a first name.
Pema Demographics
Pema Political Affiliation
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Pema Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Pema Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Pema (Hindi: पेमा, Marathi: पेमा, Oriya: େପମା, Russian: Пэма, Tibetan: པདྨ་) occurs in India more than any other country/territory. It can also occur in the variant forms: Péma. Click here to see other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Pema? popularity and diffusion
The surname Pema is the 62,875th most widespread surname internationally, borne by approximately 1 in 913,570 people. The last name occurs mostly in Asia, where 71 percent of Pema live; 70 percent live in South Asia and 59 percent live in Indo-South Asia. It is also the 11,706th most common first name in the world, held by 85,431 people.
This last name is most commonly held in India, where it is borne by 4,674 people, or 1 in 164,113. In India Pema is most numerous in: Madhya Pradesh, where 49 percent reside, Arunachal Pradesh, where 35 percent reside and Tamil Nadu, where 9 percent reside. Apart from India this surname is found in 54 countries. It also occurs in Bhutan, where 12 percent reside and Albania, where 6 percent reside.
Pema Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Pema last name are 4.39% more likely to be registered Republicans than The US average, with 51.16% registered to vote for the party.
The amount Pema earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 38.73% more than the national average, earning R 329,664 per year; in United States they earn 2.47% less than the national average, earning $42,083 USD per year and in Canada they earn 29.93% less than the national average, earning $34,814 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Pema Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Pema in the Marathi language | ||
| पेमा | pema | 99.88 |
| पेम | pema | 0.12 |
| Pema in the Hindi language | ||
| पेमा | pema | 99.28 |
| पे्मा | pema | 0.24 |
| प़ेमा | paema | 0.16 |
| पे़मा | pema | 0.1 |
| पेम | pema | 0.09 |
| प्रेम | prema | 0.02 |
| पेपा | pepa | 0.01 |
| पे्म | pema | 0.01 |
| प्रमा | prama | 0.01 |
| प्रेमा | prema | 0.01 |
| Pema in the Oriya language | ||
| େପମା | epama | 85.19 |
| େପମ | epama | 14.81 |
| Pema in the Tibetan language | ||
| པདྨ་ | pema | 82.76 |
| པདྨ། | pema | 8.55 |
| པངྨ་ | pangma | 5.54 |
| པདྨ | pema | 1.14 |
| པད་མ་ | pema | 0.76 |
| པངྨ། | pangma | 0.16 |
| པངྨ་། | pangma | 0.16 |
| པདྨ་། | pema | 0.15 |
| པརྨ་ | pama | 0.15 |
| པད་མ། | pema | 0.13 |
| པརྨ | pama | 0.04 |
| ཕདྨ་ | padma | 0.04 |
| པ་དྨ་ | pema | 0.04 |
| པདྦ་ | padba | 0.03 |
| པདྨ་ཛ | pemadza | 0.03 |
| དཔལ་མ། | palma | 0.03 |
| པརྨ། | pama | 0.03 |
| པདྨོ་ | pemo | 0.02 |
| པདམ་ | padam | 0.02 |
| པད་མ | pema | 0.02 |
| བདྨ་ | badma | 0.01 |
| དབྱངས་སྒྲོན། | yangdrön | 0.01 |
| པད་མ་་ | pema | 0.01 |
| ཀརྨ་ | karma | 0.01 |
| ལྷ་མོ། | lhamo | 0.01 |
| བདྨ | badma | 0.01 |
| དཔེ་མ་ | péma | 0.01 |
| མདྨ་ | madma | 0.01 |
| པ་རྨ | pama | 0.01 |
| དཔལ་མོ། | palmo | 0.01 |
| པནྨ། | panma | 0.01 |
| བློ་བཟང་ | lozang | 0.01 |
| པད་མོ། | pemo | 0.01 |
| པྡམ་ | pdam | 0.01 |
| པདྩ་ | padtsa | 0.01 |
| པདྨ་མཚོ་མོ། | pematsomo | 0.01 |
| སྒྲོལ་མ། | drolma | 0.01 |
| པདྦ། | padba | 0.01 |
| པདྨོ། | pemo | 0.01 |
| པདྨ་་ | pema | 0.01 |
| བདྨ། | badma | 0.01 |
| པ་དྨ | pema | 0.01 |
| དཔལ་མ་ | palma | 0.01 |
| Pema in the Russian language | ||
| Пэма | pema | - |
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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
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