Pepe surname: U.S. census count, rank and records | FamilyCrests

The Pepe surname

In the 2000 U.S. Census, 5,358 people carried this name — #5,917 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 50,300 people counted.

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In France’s civil register

France’s register of deaths holds 427 people named Pepe.

137 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 35 départements, most often Doubs.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they were born

Born outside France 137
Doubs 92
Bouches-du-Rhône 60
Paris 17
Corsica 15
Seine-Saint-Denis 12
Jura 12
Gard 9
Var 6

Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.

In Switzerland’s population statistics

423 people named Pepe live in Switzerland.

They live in 17 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they live today

Zurich 96
Aargau 45
Vaud 40
Ticino 33
Bern 31
Lucerne 28
Geneva 28
Valais 24

Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.

In Belgium’s population register

At least 114 people named Pepe live in Belgium.

Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Hainaut.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they live today

Hainaut 62
Walloon Brabant 14
Liège 14
Limburg 14
Brussels-Capital 5
Flemish Brabant 5

Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.

When the index is not enough

This page says where Pepe is.
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