The surname Pon
A surname, carried by 1,419 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex P500
Origin
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.
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How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,419 people named Pon in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 217,580 Americans. That is up 9.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,298.
Who is named Pon
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
73% of people named Pon identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, 12% as white (not Hispanic) and 8.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- Asian and Pacific Islander 73%
- White (not Hispanic) 12%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 8.7%
- Two or more races 5.1%
- Black (not Hispanic) 1.1%
Compare: most common surnames among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Pon has the Soundex code P500, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P500.
Questions
- Where does the surname Pon come from?
- 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.
- How common is the surname Pon?
- 1,419 people in the United States had the surname Pon in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 217,580 Americans. It ranked 19,145th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Pon?
- In the 2010 Census, 73% of people named Pon identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, and 12% as white (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Pon getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,298 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,419 in 2010, up 9.3%.