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
Average Pema Salary in
United States
$42,083 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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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་) is found in India more than any other country or territory. It can appear as a variant: Péma. For other possible spellings of Pema click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Pema? popularity and diffusion
The surname Pema is the 62,875th most numerous surname at a global level. It is borne by approximately 1 in 913,570 people. Pema occurs mostly in Asia, where 71 percent of Pema are found; 70 percent are found in South Asia and 59 percent are found in Indo-South Asia. Pema is also the 11,706th most common first name on earth, borne by 85,431 people.
The last name is most common in India, where it is carried by 4,674 people, or 1 in 164,113. In India Pema is most frequent in: Madhya Pradesh, where 49 percent live, Arunachal Pradesh, where 35 percent live and Tamil Nadu, where 9 percent live. Aside from India Pema occurs in 54 countries. It also occurs in Bhutan, where 12 percent live and Albania, where 6 percent live.
Pema Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Pema surname are 4.39% more likely to be registered Republicans than the national average, with 51.16% registered with the political 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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