Pepa
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: pip, stone (seed inside fruits)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pepa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pepa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 63K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia≈1 in 2K
- CLChile≈1 in 32K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Czechia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 118 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Czechia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a diminutive of the male given name Josef
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Pepa is read(measured from records)
Pepa is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish58%
pip, stone (seed inside fruits)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Bulgarian9.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Pepa in Bulgarian.
- Czech8.8%
a diminutive of the male given name Josef
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Hindi6.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Pepa in Hindi.
- English5.6%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Pepa in English.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pepa counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); MVČR — living population register 2017. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Pepa is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Spanish: pet form of JOSEFA . Variant: Pepita .
as a word
In mh, pepper (Piperaceae)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swahili, to sway
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tpi, pepper
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Pepa Martins de Abreub. 1890PTPortuguese writer, journalist and actress
- Pepa Chávarrib. 1901ESDeportista española
- Pepa Poch i Ripollb. 1960ESCatalan artist
- Pepa Luzardob. 1963ESSpanish politician
- Pepa Pedrocheb. 1967ESSpanish actor
- Pepa Aniorteb. 1972ESSpanish actress
- Pepab. 1975BGBulgarian singer
- La Terremoto de Alcorcónb. 1977ESnot in their usual nameSpanish singer, actress
- Pepa Rusb. 1985ESSpanish singer
- Pepa GraciaESSpanish actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 44 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 796 | #3,341 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 714 | #1,731 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 67 | #2,000 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 37 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2003 | 1 | — |
| CZ Czechia | CZSO — 100 nejčetnějších dětských jmen (top 100 baby names 2024) | 2018 | — | #180 |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Pepa come from?
- a diminutive of the male given name Josef Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Pepa?
- A machine transcription gives /pepa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Pepa mean?
- In Spanish, pip, stone (seed inside fruits)
- Is Pepa a male or female name?
- Pepa is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Pepa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.2 thousand people named Pepa in Czechia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Pepa?
- In Spain, the national register counted 796 people named Pepa, about 1 in 63 thousand residents.
- How common is Pepa compared with other names?
- In Spain, Pepa is the 516th most common given name of 135,644 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Pepa?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pepaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Pepa” — the 516th most common given name in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.