# Pon (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/pon/  
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 | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,419 |
| US rank (2010) | 19,145 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 217,580 people |
| Change since 2000 | +9.3% (1,298 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Chinese surname, variant Romanizations of: * 潘 and 盤 /盘 (pán) (see Pan) * 彭 (see Peng) * possibly Romanized from names such as 邦 (bāng)), monosyllabic personal names.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Pon 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) | 12% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 1.1% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 8.7% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 73% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.0% |
| Two or more races | 5.1% |

## Similar surnames

Poon, Paone, Payne, Pena, Pham, Phan, Pina, Penn, Pan, Pino, Penny, Paine.

## 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.