Pemba Surname
Approximately 40,494 people bear this surname
Pemba Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR Congo | 13,654 | 1:5,411 | 623 |
| Mozambique | 8,034 | 1:3,393 | 791 |
| Angola | 5,916 | 1:4,562 | 660 |
| Malawi | 5,176 | 1:3,307 | 430 |
| Congo | 2,767 | 1:1,803 | 295 |
| Gabon | 1,667 | 1:1,133 | 190 |
| Tanzania | 1,099 | 1:48,173 | 5,398 |
| Zambia | 636 | 1:24,921 | 2,652 |
| Kenya | 410 | 1:112,634 | 9,577 |
| Zimbabwe | 327 | 1:47,212 | 7,239 |
| Indonesia | 278 | 1:475,717 | 39,230 |
| South Africa | 220 | 1:246,262 | 25,099 |
| Belgium | 69 | 1:166,618 | 22,787 |
| United States | 50 | 1:7,249,179 | 331,838 |
| Brazil | 33 | 1:6,487,101 | 155,169 |
| Cameroon | 32 | 1:649,033 | 48,340 |
| France | 24 | 1:2,767,613 | 196,808 |
| Papua New Guinea | 23 | 1:354,509 | 47,011 |
| England | 18 | 1:3,095,448 | 105,421 |
| India | 12 | 1:63,922,115 | 578,870 |
| Bhutan | 8 | 1:77,005 | 762 |
| Nepal | 7 | 1:4,068,708 | 11,207 |
| Niger | 5 | 1:3,838,403 | 64,195 |
| United Arab Emirates | 4 | 1:2,290,568 | 60,372 |
| Canada | 4 | 1:9,211,398 | 321,528 |
| Uganda | 2 | 1:19,519,640 | 189,114 |
| Philippines | 2 | 1:50,619,112 | 341,003 |
| Scotland | 2 | 1:2,676,908 | 51,579 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 1:45,522,696 | 503,646 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1:30,204,077 | 85,459 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1:10,418,241 | 25,048 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Botswana | 1 | 1:2,186,929 | 30,250 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
The alternate forms: Pembá (1) are calculated separately.
Pemba (12,944) may also be a first name.
Pemba Demographics
Pemba Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Pemba Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Pemba Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Pemba (Hindi: पेम्बा, Tibetan: སྤེན་པ།) occurs most in The DR Congo. It can be found in the variant forms: Pembá. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Pemba? popularity and diffusion
It is the 13,775th most widely held surname throughout the world, held by around 1 in 179,966 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Pemba reside; 50 percent reside in Southern Africa and 45 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa. Pemba is also the 51,455th most frequently held first name internationally It is held by 12,944 people.
The surname Pemba is most widespread in The DR Congo, where it is held by 13,654 people, or 1 in 5,411. Besides The DR Congo it exists in 42 countries. It also occurs in Mozambique, where 20 percent are found and Angola, where 15 percent are found.
Pemba Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those carrying the Pemba surname is chiefly Christian (100%) in Kenya.
The amount Pemba earn in different countries varies markedly. In South Africa they earn 21.46% more than the national average, earning R 288,636 per year and in United States they earn 15.8% less than the national average, earning $36,332 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Pemba Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Pemba in the Hindi language | ||
| पेम्बा | pemba | 42.86 |
| पेंबा | pemba | 28.57 |
| पैम्बा | paimba | 14.29 |
| पेनबा | penaba | 14.29 |
| Pemba in the Tibetan language | ||
| སྤེན་པ། | penpa | 34.33 |
| སྤེན་པ་ | penpa | 33.41 |
| སྤེན་བ། | penwa | 8.06 |
| སྤེན་བ་ | penwa | 6.45 |
| སྤེན་བཱ་ | penba | 2.3 |
| སྤེནམ་པ་ | penampa | 1.84 |
| སྤེནམ་པ། | penampa | 1.61 |
| སྤེནམ་བཱ། | penamba | 1.15 |
| པདམ་བ། | padamwa | 0.92 |
| སྤེམ་པ་ | pempa | 0.92 |
| སྤེནམ་བཱ་ | penamba | 0.92 |
| སྤན་པ་ | penpa | 0.69 |
| སྤེན་བཱ། | penba | 0.46 |
| སྤེན་པ | penpa | 0.46 |
| པདྨ་ | pema | 0.46 |
| སྤེམ་བ་ | pemwa | 0.46 |
| སྥེན་སྦ་ | spenba | 0.23 |
| སྤེན་པ་། | penpa | 0.23 |
| སྤན་བཱ་ | penba | 0.23 |
| སྤེན་བ | penwa | 0.23 |
| ཕུར་པ། | purpa | 0.23 |
| སྤོན་བ་ | pönwa | 0.23 |
| པདམ་བ་ | padamwa | 0.23 |
| སྤེམ་པ | pempa | 0.23 |
| སྤན་བ། | penwa | 0.23 |
| སྤེན་ཕ། | penpa | 0.23 |
| པདྨ་བ། | pemaba | 0.23 |
| སྤོན་པ། | pönpa | 0.23 |
| སྤེན་བའ་ | penba | 0.23 |
| པངྨ་པ་ | pangmapa | 0.23 |
| སྤན་བ་ | penwa | 0.23 |
| སྤེན་ཕ་ | penpa | 0.23 |
| སྤེན་སྦ། | penba | 0.23 |
| པདྨ་པ། | pemapa | 0.23 |
| སྤེམ་བཱ་ | pemba | 0.23 |
| སྤེན་་བ་ | penba | 0.23 |
| སྤན་པུ་ | penpu | 0.23 |
| སྤེན་སྦ་ | penba | 0.23 |
| སྤན་བཱ། | penba | 0.23 |
| སྤེནམ་བ་ | penamwa | 0.23 |
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Footnotes
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