Given name & surname
Pep
“(God) shall add”
Pep is a masculine given name. It is used in Catalan.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Pep is a diminutive of Josep. Josep means “(God) shall add.”
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Where it comes from
Pep is a diminutive of Josep. Josep comes from Biblical Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Catalan usage, Pep is a diminutive of Josep.
Pep’s family of names
In Catalan usage, Pep is a diminutive of Josep. In Catalan usage, Pep shares a linguistic root with the Spanish form Pepe.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Pep
- Pep GuardiolaSpanish association football manager and player (born 1971)
- Pep BielSpanish association football playerborn 1996
- Pep ClotetSpanish footballer and managerborn 1977
- Pep CollSpanish Catalan writerborn 1949
- Pep BlaySpanish writerborn 1966
- Pep MunnéSpanish actorborn 1953
- Pep BusquetsSpanish basketball player (born 1999)
- Pep OrtegaSpanish basketball player (born 1984)
- Pep Anton MuñozSpanish actorborn 1956
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
If you love Pep, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.
Peppe
“God will add”
64% boys · 36% girls
Pisəħ
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>99% boys
Peppuccio
“God will add”
>99% boys
Pelatiah
“Yah has freed” · “deliverance of Yah”
>99% boys
Peniʻamina
Peniʻamina is a masculine given name from Bible. It is used in Hawaiian.
>99% boys
Pudens
“bashful” · “modest”
>99% boys
Pallu
“distinguished” · “wonderful”
>99% boys
Iosep
“God will add”
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