Pepenene Surname

593,568th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 525 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
South Africa
Highest density in:
Lesotho

Pepenene Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Pepenene Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
South Africa3711:146,03216,656
Lesotho1521:13,3722,962
England11:55,718,059489,080
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

Pepenene (23) may also be a first name.

Pepenene Last Name Facts

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

The last name Pepenene occurs most in South Africa. It can occur as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Pepenene? popularity and diffusion

The last name Pepenene is the 593,568th most widely held family name at a global level It is held by around 1 in 13,881,040 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Pepenene reside; 100 percent reside in Southern Africa and 100 percent reside in South Bantu Africa. Pepenene is also the 2,239,265th most commonly occurring first name at a global level, borne by 23 people.

It is most commonly occurring in South Africa, where it is borne by 371 people, or 1 in 146,032. In South Africa Pepenene is most prevalent in: Free State, where 63 percent are found, Gauteng, where 16 percent are found and North West, where 7 percent are found. Not including South Africa it exists in 3 countries. It also occurs in Lesotho, where 29 percent are found and England, where 0 percent are found.

Pepenene Last Name Statistics demography

Pepenene earn less than half the average income. In South Africa they earn 56.82% less than the national average, earning R 102,612 per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Peppengen821/
Pepenyone821/
Papeneni757/
Papinene751/
Pippengen710/
Popineni634/
Papenani631/
Pophineni591/
Pipiniene591/
Pipyniene591/
Pepainyone561/
Papanoni5013/

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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
  • Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
  • 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 Pepenene
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