# Pac (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/pac/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Polish |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 535 |
| US rank (2010) | 40,800 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 577,094 people |
| Change since 2000 | +22% (439 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Various origins: * Borrowed from Polish Pac, a hypocoristic short form of several personal names, such as Paweł or Pakosław. * Borrowed from Czech and Slovak Pač, Páč, from a short form of the personal name Pačeslav. * Borrowed from Spanish Pac, a topographic surname from pac (“farmstead”). * Guatemalan surname, from a Castilianized form of a local Mayan word meaning "wooden spoon".

## Who carries it

Share of people named Pac in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 67% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 1.9% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 28% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 3.4% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Pac in Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the United States.

## People named Pac

- Erin Pac, American bobsledder
- Mikołaj Stefan Pac, Bishop of Lithuania's capital city Vilnius
- Kazimierz Pac, Bishop of Samogitia

## Similar surnames

Pack, Pak, Pace, Paz, Peace, Peach, Pascua, Peachey, Pascoe, Pasco, Paschke, Pasch.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.