How common is the surname Pung?

1,341 people in the United States had the surname Pung in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 230,235 Americans. It ranked 19,986th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Pung?

In the 2010 Census, 67% of people named Pung identified as white (not Hispanic), and 24% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

Is the surname Pung getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,481 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,341 in 2010, down 9.5%.

The surname Pung

A surname, carried by 1,341 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex P520

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Pung is more common than 87.7% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,341 people named Pung in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 230,235 Americans. That is down 9.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,481.

#19,986

rank among US surnames

1,341

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

-9.5%

change since 2000 (was #17,530)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#19,986	McClusky	1,341	230,235
#19,992	Couillard	1,340	230,407

Who is named Pung

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

67% of people named Pung identified as white (not Hispanic), 24% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 6.3% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 67%
Asian and Pacific Islander 24%
Two or more races 6.3%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Pung

Pung has the Soundex code P520, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P520.

Questions

How common is the surname Pung?: 1,341 people in the United States had the surname Pung in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 230,235 Americans. It ranked 19,986th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Pung?: In the 2010 Census, 67% of people named Pung identified as white (not Hispanic), and 24% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
Is the surname Pung getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,481 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,341 in 2010, down 9.5%.