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The PAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 8,143 4004 0.003 30
United States (1880 census) 93 32982 0 2
Change since 1880 +8050 +28978 +N/A +28
Other Countries
Australia 620 2605 0.004 38
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 2,803 1099 0.008 83
New York 1,245 1387 0.007 66
Texas 588 3641 0.003 28
New Jersey 443 1995 0.005 53
Massachusetts 297 2817 0.005 47
Top States for PAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 2,803 1099 0.008 83
New York 1,245 1387 0.007 66
New Jersey 443 1995 0.005 53
Massachusetts 297 2817 0.005 47
Washington 268 2630 0.005 45

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called PAN live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called PAN represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called PAN in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a PAN by picking someone at random in California than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of PAN

Region of origin: Asia

Country of origin: China

Language of origin: Chinese

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the PAN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of PAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 326 4
Mixed Race 155 1.9
White (Hispanic) 128 1.57
Black/African American 50 0.61
Native American/Alaskan 8 0.1
Asian/Pacific 7,476 91.81

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the PAN surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of PAN in historical publications

PAN. Corresponds with an O. Germ.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to PAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PAN.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for PAN

The following words are slight variants of PAN that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.