The Pepi Family Name

Arms linked to Pepe and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

The meaning behind Pepi

Genealogists group Pepi with Pepe. Name scholars give the meaning as “pepper", or Giuseppe"”.

Pepi and Pepe differ only in the final vowel; Italian surnames often appear in both a singular and a plural form. Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written. The same family of names includes Peppe. The 2010 US Census counted 358 people named Pepi, ranking it number 56,972 among American surnames.

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