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    The surname Pac

    A Polish place surname, carried by 535 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex P200

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Pac is more common than 74.9% of them.

    Origin

    Polish origin

    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".

    Pac is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 304 Polish surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 535 people named Pac in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 577,094 Americans. That is up 22% since 2000, when the Census counted 439.

    #40,800
    rank among US surnames
    535
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +21.9%
    change since 2000 (was #45,829)

    Who is named Pac

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    67% of people named Pac identified as white (not Hispanic), 28% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 3.4% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

    • White (not Hispanic) 67%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 28%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 3.4%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.9%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Pacs

    3 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Erin Pac
      American bobsledder, born 1980
    • Mikołaj Stefan Pac
      Bishop of Lithuania's capital city Vilnius, 1623–1684
    • Kazimierz Pac
      Bishop of Samogitia, died 1695

    Notable Pacs come mostly from Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (2) and the United States (1).

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Pac

    Pac has the Soundex code P200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P200.

    Other Polish surnames

    All 304 Polish surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Pac come from?
    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”). *…
    How common is the surname Pac?
    535 people in the United States had the surname Pac in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 577,094 Americans. It ranked 40,800th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Pac?
    In the 2010 Census, 67% of people named Pac identified as white (not Hispanic), and 28% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Who is the most famous person named Pac?
    Erin Pac, American bobsledder, followed by Mikołaj Stefan Pac.
    Where is the surname Pac most common?
    Wikidata records people named Pac in Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the United States.
    What type of surname is Pac?
    Pac is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Pac getting more or less common?
    More common. 439 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 535 in 2010, up 22%.