# Panas (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/panas/  
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 | Greek |
| Type | occupational, named after the work an ancestor did |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 634 |
| US rank (2010) | 35,489 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 486,980 people |
| Change since 2000 | +3.9% (610 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Various origins: * Borrowed from Greek Πανάς (Panás), a reduced form of the personal name Panagiotis, or an occupational surname for a merchant of cloths, from πανί (paní, “cloth, fabric”). * Borrowed from Polish Panas and Ukrainian Пана́с (Panás), a hypocoristic form of various personal names.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Panas 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) | 93% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.0% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 5.8% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.0% |

## Similar surnames

Panos, Panza, Paniagua, Pang, Ponce, Pence, Peng, Phung, Pankey, Phoenix, Penick, Ping.

## 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.