Pema Surname

62,875th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 7,977 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
India
Highest density in:
Bhutan

Pema Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Pema Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
India4,6741:164,11310,190
Bhutan9281:66489
Albania4771:6,1091,158
Benin3911:26,4343,526
South Africa3491:155,23717,537
Papua New Guinea1981:41,1805,013
United States1931:1,878,026122,158
DR Congo1301:568,30443,658
Botswana1101:19,8813,945
Nigeria781:2,271,06176,915
England701:795,97243,050
Argentina501:854,86855,754
Indonesia431:3,075,563171,061
Cameroon411:506,56340,818
Ivory Coast331:699,12819,606
Uganda221:1,774,51360,490
Canada221:1,674,800111,190
Thailand181:3,924,352328,346
Zimbabwe151:1,029,21663,831
Switzerland141:586,63740,624
Brazil111:19,461,303329,560
Russia101:14,412,306394,810
Qatar91:262,00030,726
New Zealand81:566,04034,598
Greece71:1,582,82788,377
Australia61:4,499,284146,780
Mexico61:20,687,70153,861
Sweden61:1,641,126116,183
China51:273,464,31313,838
Philippines51:20,247,645262,352
Tanzania51:10,588,32375,430
Italy51:12,231,338126,430
Malaysia41:7,373,556230,001
Togo41:1,811,9428,122
Peru41:7,946,03141,846
Germany31:26,835,153452,368
Niger21:9,596,00886,358
Poland21:19,004,374199,659
Venezuela21:15,102,03869,873
Belgium21:5,748,322130,559
Ireland11:4,708,93929,543
Croatia11:4,228,60499,289
Wales11:3,094,53244,023
Finland11:5,496,70284,025
Dominican Republic11:10,432,93236,508
Denmark11:5,644,71593,155
Cyprus11:884,87613,055
Malawi11:17,119,10934,144
Mongolia11:2,825,28917,010
Spain11:46,752,036156,870
Burkina Faso11:18,352,10030,051
Solomon Islands11:580,02922,243
Scotland11:5,353,81763,002
Nepal11:28,480,95622,413
Netherlands11:16,887,176156,465

The alternate forms: Péma (10) are calculated separately.

Pema (85,431) may also be a first name.

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

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Péma9210/
Piema897,019/
Pemma89699/
Pemaj89566/
Paema89554/
Pemha89465/
Phema8987/
Poema8985/
Pemau8942/
Peuma8939/
Peima8936/
Peema8931/
Pemah8928/
Pemas8922/
Pehma8920/
Pemai8918/
Peama8910/
Ppema899/
Peyma897/
Pemat895/
Petma895/
Pemaa893/
Pesma893/
Pejma891/
Phiema8076/
Paemah8036/
Phaema8023/
Pemmaa8022/
Phetma8020/
Paemai8018/
Paemaa8015/
Peimai8011/
Petmat809/
Petmai809/
Pemaja808/
Pe'ema806/
Peamma805/
Petmas804/
Pemmas802/
Peemai802/
Pheama802/
Peimad801/
Pheema801/
Phemat801/
Pemhai801/
Pemmad801/
Phemah801/
Peumah801/
Peymad801/
Peymai801/
Peymat801/
Pemach801/
Pejmah801/
Peemat801/
Peemma801/
Peamad801/
Pemmga800/
Poma7582,425/
Pama7526,457/
Pima757,098/
Pemo754,066/
Peme751,655/
Pemi751,273/
Pemy7516/
Pemj753/
Pyma751/
Peymaud7335/
Peetmaa7331/
Phetmat7315/
Phaemai7311/
Pheimad7310/
Phetmas739/
Phetmai735/
Pettmay732/
Pethmad732/
Phetmad732/
Pemmast731/
Paemaha731/
Phehmai731/
Peymeau731/
Pemeaux730/
Paima678,467/
Pomaa673,506/
Phama673,272/
Pheme67894/
Pamma67762/
Piemi67575/
Pemou67431/
Pamay67409/
Pomah67380/
Pesme67367/
Payma67362/
Pomay67312/
Pemmi67289/
Phemo67246/
Pamai67235/
Pamah67211/
Pohma67207/
Poima67195/
Pimas67173/
Petmi67173/
Pimai67164/
Pimma67164/
Pemme67162/
Phima67158/
Pomai67140/
Phoma67139/
Pemot67132/
Pamea67129/
Pajma67110/
Peumi67102/
Pehme67101/
Paama6785/
Pomma6784/
Piemo6770/
Peime6768/
Pamaa6766/
Pomaj6762/
Pieme6761/
Peamo6760/
Pemis6759/
Peimi6758/
Pemhe6752/
Pemii6745/
Pemer6744/
Poyma6744/
Peame6740/
Paemo6736/
Peimo6736/
Pisma6732/
Peumo6727/
Pimoa6721/
Pijma6720/
Petmy6719/
Pahma6717/
Pemes6717/
Pimau6716/
Pimat6713/
Phemy6713/
Puima6713/
Pitma6711/
Pamau6711/
Pemos6711/
Peemi6710/
Peami679/
Phemi678/
Pomea677/
Petme677/
Pejmo677/
Pimga676/
Pemio676/
Pemod675/
Pemee675/
Peume675/
Pimay675/
Pemie674/
Hpama674/
Pemej673/
Pioma673/
Pemoh673/
Pesmo673/
Pomau673/
Peymi673/
Pimha673/
Pamha672/
Peemo672/
Pemeh672/
Pymay672/
Pemez672/
Pemmy672/
Pimah672/
Peethmma671/
Pemet671/
Pemgi671/
Pemij671/
Pemey671/
Pamaï671/
Piemé671/
Peumy671/
Peymo671/
Peymy671/
Pemuy671/
Pehmi671/
Piùma671/
Pimaa671/
Pimad671/
Pimea671/
Ppama671/
Ppima671/
Pytma671/
Puyma671/
Pejmi671/
Peamy670/
Pymma670/

Pema Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Pema in the Marathi language
पेमाpema99.88
पेमpema0.12
Pema in the Hindi language
पेमाpema99.28
पे्माpema0.24
प़ेमाpaema0.16
पे़माpema0.1
पेमpema0.09
प्रेमprema0.02
पेपाpepa0.01
पे्मpema0.01
प्रमाprama0.01
प्रेमाprema0.01
Pema in the Oriya language
େପମାepama85.19
େପମepama14.81
Pema in the Tibetan language
པདྨ་pema82.76
པདྨ།pema8.55
པངྨ་pangma5.54
པདྨpema1.14
པད་མ་pema0.76
པངྨ།pangma0.16
པངྨ་།pangma0.16
པདྨ་།pema0.15
པརྨ་pama0.15
པད་མ།pema0.13
པརྨpama0.04
ཕདྨ་padma0.04
པ་དྨ་pema0.04
པདྦ་padba0.03
པདྨ་ཛpemadza0.03
དཔལ་མ།palma0.03
པརྨ།pama0.03
པདྨོ་pemo0.02
པདམ་padam0.02
པད་མpema0.02
བདྨ་badma0.01
དབྱངས་སྒྲོན།yangdrön0.01
པད་མ་་pema0.01
ཀརྨ་karma0.01
ལྷ་མོ།lhamo0.01
བདྨbadma0.01
དཔེ་མ་péma0.01
མདྨ་madma0.01
པ་རྨpama0.01
དཔལ་མོ།palmo0.01
པནྨ།panma0.01
བློ་བཟང་lozang0.01
པད་མོ།pemo0.01
པྡམ་pdam0.01
པདྩ་padtsa0.01
པདྨ་མཚོ་མོ།pematsomo0.01
སྒྲོལ་མ།drolma0.01
པདྦ།padba0.01
པདྨོ།pemo0.01
པདྨ་་pema0.01
བདྨ།badma0.01
པ་དྨpema0.01
དཔལ་མ་palma0.01
Pema in the Russian language
Пэмаpema-

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