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The POON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,051 7570 0.002 15
United States (1880 census) 46 51936 0 1
Change since 1880 +4005 +44366 +N/A +14
Other Countries
Australia 883 1857 0.005 54
United Kingdom 487 9007 0.001 11
Top States for POON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 1,833 1817 0.005 54
New York 659 2991 0.003 35
New Jersey 177 5713 0.002 21
Florida 158 11728 0.001 10
Massachusetts 138 6131 0.002 22
Top States for POON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 1,833 1817 0.005 54
Hawaii 49 2289 0.004 40
New York 659 2991 0.003 35
Nevada 47 5092 0.002 24
Vermont 14 6334 0.002 23

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

Classification and Origin of POON

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 POON 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 POON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 159 3.92
Black/African American 93 2.3
Mixed Race 79 1.95
White (Hispanic) 24 0.59
Asian/Pacific 3,696 91.24
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

Meaning of POON in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of POON.

Similar names to POON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as POON.

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 POON

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