# Pang (surname)

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

A surname from Chinese.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Chinese |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 7,642 |
| US rank (2010) | 4,645 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 40,401 people |
| Change since 2000 | +15% (6,627 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

From: * various Chinese surnames, including Mandarin 龐 /庞 (páng), Cantonese 彭 (paang⁴) and Hokkien 馮 /冯 (pâng) * Khmer បាង (baang).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Pang 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) | 3.9% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.5% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.4% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 87% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.0% |
| Two or more races | 6.2% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Pang in Eastern Han, the United States and Kingdom of the Netherlands.

## People named Pang

- Pang Tong, Advisor to Chinese warlord Liu Bei (179-214)
- May Pang, American former music executive
- Eric Pang, badminton player

## Similar surnames

Peng, Paniagua, Pankey, Ping, Panek, Panico, Pankow, Pung, Panos, Panza, Panas, Ponce.

## 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.