Pempa Surname

617,991st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 498 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Kenya
Highest density in:
Bhutan

Pempa Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Pempa Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Kenya4281:107,8979,274
DR Congo341:2,172,929106,971
Bhutan81:77,005762
India71:109,580,769786,157
United States71:51,779,848968,877
Switzerland61:1,368,81977,571
Thailand41:17,659,586685,799
Belgium11:11,496,644167,539
Brazil11:214,074,3321,693,628
Greece11:11,079,790145,225
South Africa11:54,177,704343,732

Pempa (3,196) may also be a first name.

Pempa Last Name Facts

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

The last name Pempa (Hindi: पेम्पा, Marathi: पेमा, Tibetan: སྤེན་པ་) is more frequently found in Kenya than any other country or territory. It can also be found in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Pempa? popularity and diffusion

The last name Pempa is the 617,991st most frequently held surname at a global level, held by approximately 1 in 14,633,626 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 93 percent of Pempa live; 86 percent live in East Africa and 86 percent live in Nilo-Saharan Africa. It is also the 127,044th most prevalent first name worldwide, held by 3,196 people.

This surname is most frequently occurring in Kenya, where it is borne by 428 people, or 1 in 107,897. In Kenya Pempa is most frequent in: Narok County, where 65 percent are found, Kajiado County, where 35 percent are found and Kiambu County, where 0 percent are found. Outside of Kenya this last name exists in 10 countries. It also occurs in The DR Congo, where 7 percent are found and Bhutan, where 2 percent are found.

Pempa Last Name Statistics demography

The religious adherence of those carrying the Pempa last name is primarily Christian (100%) in Kenya.

Pempa earn significantly less than the average income. In United States they earn 31.49% less than the national average, earning $29,562 USD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Pempas915/
Pempea911/
Pempad911/
Pmpa891/
Pompa8026,979/
Pampa804,713/
Pimpa803,615/
Pempe80951/
Penpa8022/
Pempo8016/
Pempi8012/
Pempy804/
Pempé802/
Peñpa801/
Pempaitė771/
Pemper73440/
Pimpat73243/
Pompha73224/
Phampa73109/
Pimpas7388/
Pompay7362/
Pimpha7338/
Phimpa7336/
Phompa7332/
Puenpa7331/
Pempes7317/
Pempey7314/
Pempie739/
Pimpaj738/
Pompai736/
Pampay736/
Phempe735/
Paempo734/
Pempot733/
Pammpa732/
Pampha732/
Penpah732/
Pempee732/
Pompah731/
Pempyś731/
Pempis731/
Pempio731/
Pempez731/
Pompaș731/
Piempe731/
Pampai731/
Ponmpa731/
Pampaa731/
Pimpap731/
Pimpay731/
Peunpa731/
Pompau731/
Penpas731/
Peanpa731/
Pampah730/
Pechhmpai711/
Phimpha679,212/
Peba67730/
Phampha67207/
Phimpat67104/
Pempeit67101/
Pimpaud6751/
Puenpha6719/
Pomphay6712/
Phenpha6712/
Phompha6711/
Paempee679/
Petimpe676/
Peanpha674/
Phimpad673/
Phompai673/
Pampaha673/
Pimphat672/
Peunpha672/
Pimpahe672/
Peampee671/
Phimpai671/
Pnpa671/
Paampha671/
Pomphai671/
Pempest671/
Piempeh671/
Pempytė671/
Pmpj671/
Pempfer671/
Pimpahp671/

Pempa Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Pempa in the Marathi language
पेमाpema-
Pempa in the Hindi language
पेम्पाpempa93.37
पेंपाpempa6.63
Pempa in the Tibetan language
སྤེན་པ་penpa48.97
སྤེན་པ།penpa33.79
སྤེན་སྦ།penba4.83
དཔན་པ།penpa1.38
སྤེན་པpenpa1.38
སྤན་པ་penpa0.69
སྤེནམ་པ།penampa0.69
པངྨ་pangma0.69
ཕུར་པ་purpa0.69
སྤེནམ་པ་penampa0.69
སྤེམ་སྦ།pemba0.69
པདྨ།pema0.69
སྤེམ་པ།pempa0.69
པདྨ་བ།pemaba0.69
སྤེན་སྦ་penba0.69
སྤན་པོ།penpo0.69
སྤེམ་པ་pempa0.69
པདྨ་པ།pemapa0.69
སྤེན་སྥ།penspa0.69

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Footnotes

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