Pemba Surname

13,775th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 40,494 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
DR Congo
Highest density in:
Gabon

Pemba Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Pemba Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
DR Congo13,6541:5,411623
Mozambique8,0341:3,393791
Angola5,9161:4,562660
Malawi5,1761:3,307430
Congo2,7671:1,803295
Gabon1,6671:1,133190
Tanzania1,0991:48,1735,398
Zambia6361:24,9212,652
Kenya4101:112,6349,577
Zimbabwe3271:47,2127,239
Indonesia2781:475,71739,230
South Africa2201:246,26225,099
Belgium691:166,61822,787
United States501:7,249,179331,838
Brazil331:6,487,101155,169
Cameroon321:649,03348,340
France241:2,767,613196,808
Papua New Guinea231:354,50947,011
England181:3,095,448105,421
India121:63,922,115578,870
Bhutan81:77,005762
Nepal71:4,068,70811,207
Niger51:3,838,40364,195
United Arab Emirates41:2,290,56860,372
Canada41:9,211,398321,528
Uganda21:19,519,640189,114
Philippines21:50,619,112341,003
Scotland21:2,676,90851,579
Ukraine11:45,522,696503,646
Malaysia11:29,494,225409,885
Venezuela11:30,204,07785,459
Sweden11:9,846,757347,448
Senegal11:14,579,34211,705
Portugal11:10,418,24125,048
Pakistan11:178,643,885213,220
Norway11:5,142,286129,201
Nigeria11:177,142,758748,972
Japan11:127,844,29373,547
Italy11:61,156,688199,583
Germany11:80,505,459560,955
China11:1,367,321,56651,149
Botswana11:2,186,92930,250
Australia11:26,995,701270,794

The alternate forms: Pembá (1) are calculated separately.

Pemba (12,944) may also be a first name.

Pemba Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Pemba Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Pemba (Hindi: पेम्बा, Tibetan: སྤེན་པ།) is more frequently found in The DR Congo than any other country/territory. It may be found as: Pembá. Click here for other possible spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Pemba? popularity and diffusion

It is the 13,775th most numerous last name on a global scale, held by around 1 in 179,966 people. It is primarily found in Africa, where 99 percent of Pemba reside; 50 percent reside in Southern Africa and 45 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 51,455th most widely held first name worldwide, borne by 12,944 people.

Pemba is most commonly occurring in The DR Congo, where it is held by 13,654 people, or 1 in 5,411. Outside of The DR Congo Pemba exists in 42 countries. It is also common in Mozambique, where 20 percent live and Angola, where 15 percent live.

Pemba Last Name Statistics demography

The religious adherence of those bearing the Pemba last name 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

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Pembá931/
Phemba9158,668/
Paemba91193/
Pfemba9118/
Piemba9117/
Peimba913/
Peemba911/
Pemboa911/
Pembha911/
Pmba891/
Pembaya8311/
Pembe8024,523/
Pamba8021,082/
Pembi805,733/
Pomba801,069/
Pembo80616/
Pimba80436/
Penba806/
Pemby805/
Bpmba802/
Pemva802/
Pemwa801/
Pembé801/
Pember731,905/
Phimba73941/
Phamba73580/
Pambai73287/
Phembe73197/
Pembet73192/
Pambha73160/
Pembeu73152/
Pambah73118/
Paimba7380/
Phomba7370/
Pembee7365/
Pombea7334/
Pembie7328/
Pambay7325/
Piembi7321/
Pombai7317/
Paamba7315/
Pembou7314/
Pambaa7312/
Pombah7312/
Pambau737/
Pambea736/
Pombha736/
Pembhi735/
Pembis735/
Paembe734/
Pfembi734/
Piomba733/
Peimbi732/
Paembo732/
Pembey732/
Puimba732/
Pfembe732/
Pimbas732/
Pembui731/
Puembo731/
Puembe731/
Pimbai731/
Penmbe731/
Peemby731/
Pembid731/
Peambo731/
Phembo731/
Piembo731/
Piembe731/
Pa'mba731/
Pembot731/
Pemhwa731/
Pombay731/
Pombaa731/
Pemway730/
Pembeth67158/
Pmbo6721/
Pahamba6712/
Peimber675/
Pambhaa674/
Phember672/
Piembeh671/
Pemberr671/
Paambha671/
Pambeau671/
Paemboh671/
Pembhet671/
Petmbou671/
Penbach671/
Peimbet671/
Phombea671/
Pmbe671/
Pembett671/
Phembis670/

Pemba Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Pemba in the Hindi language
पेम्बाpemba42.86
पेंबाpemba28.57
पैम्बाpaimba14.29
पेनबाpenaba14.29
Pemba in the Tibetan language
སྤེན་པ།penpa34.33
སྤེན་པ་penpa33.41
སྤེན་བ།penwa8.06
སྤེན་བ་penwa6.45
སྤེན་བཱ་penba2.3
སྤེནམ་པ་penampa1.84
སྤེནམ་པ།penampa1.61
སྤེནམ་བཱ།penamba1.15
པདམ་བ།padamwa0.92
སྤེམ་པ་pempa0.92
སྤེནམ་བཱ་penamba0.92
སྤན་པ་penpa0.69
སྤེན་བཱ།penba0.46
སྤེན་པpenpa0.46
པདྨ་pema0.46
སྤེམ་བ་pemwa0.46
སྥེན་སྦ་spenba0.23
སྤེན་པ་།penpa0.23
སྤན་བཱ་penba0.23
སྤེན་བpenwa0.23
ཕུར་པ།purpa0.23
སྤོན་བ་pönwa0.23
པདམ་བ་padamwa0.23
སྤེམ་པpempa0.23
སྤན་བ།penwa0.23
སྤེན་ཕ།penpa0.23
པདྨ་བ།pemaba0.23
སྤོན་པ།pönpa0.23
སྤེན་བའ་penba0.23
པངྨ་པ་pangmapa0.23
སྤན་བ་penwa0.23
སྤེན་ཕ་penpa0.23
སྤེན་སྦ།penba0.23
པདྨ་པ།pemapa0.23
སྤེམ་བཱ་pemba0.23
སྤེན་་བ་penba0.23
སྤན་པུ་penpu0.23
སྤེན་སྦ་penba0.23
སྤན་བཱ།penba0.23
སྤེནམ་བ་penamwa0.23

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  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Pemba
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