Penpu Surname

7,593,402nd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 6 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
India
Highest density in:
Thailand

Penpu Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Penpu Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
India51:153,413,076951,030
Thailand11:70,638,3451,175,915

Penpu (20) may also be a first name.

Penpu Last Name Facts

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

The last name Penpu (Hindi: पेंपू, Tibetan: སྤེན་པོ་) is carried by more people in India than any other country/territory. It can appear in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Penpu? popularity and diffusion

The surname Penpu is the 7,593,402nd most prevalent family name internationally, borne by around 1 in 1,214,590,986 people. This surname is mostly found in Asia, where 100 percent of Penpu live; 83 percent live in South Asia and 83 percent live in Indo-South Asia. Penpu is also the 2,446,817th most widely held first name globally, borne by 20 people.

The surname Penpu is most frequently occurring in India, where it is carried by 5 people, or 1 in 153,413,076. In India Penpu is most prevalent in: Andhra Pradesh, where 80 percent reside and Gujarat, where 20 percent reside. Excluding India Penpu exists in one country. It is also common in Thailand, where 17 percent reside.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Puenpu912/
Penput911/
Penphu911/
Penpus911/
Paenphu8396/
Puenpou832/
Penputt831/
Pempu803/
Pinpu802/
Pinphu73262/
Pempuś73203/
Pempus73125/
Pempuš736/
Penpoo732/
Pinput732/
Pinpud731/
Pinpau731/
Penphoo674/
Pmpu671/

Penpu Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Penpu in the Hindi language
पेंपूpempu83.33
पेंपुpempu16.67
Penpu in the Tibetan language
སྤེན་པོ་penpo50
སྤེན་པུ།penpu25
སྤེན་པོ།penpo25

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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
  • Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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  • Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
  • Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Penpu
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