Pang

Pang is the 4,147th most common surname in the United States, shared by 8,284 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 36,100.

By the numbers

People: 8,284
Rank: 4,147th
How common: 1 in 36,100
Per 100,000: 2.8

Where the name comes from

Origin Chinese

various Chinese surnames, including cmn 龐, yue 彭 and nan-hbl 馮.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Pang described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 88.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.5%
White, not Hispanic 3.5%
Hispanic or Latino 2.2%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.01%

Notable people called Pang

Pang Wei (born 1986)Chinese sport shooter
Pang Tong (179–214)Advisor to Chinese warlord Liu Bei
Pang Qing (born 1979)Chinese figure skater
Pang Qianyu (born 1996)Chinese wrestler
Pang De (170–219)Chinese Han dynasty general
May Pang (born 1950)American former music executive
Pang Jiaying (born 1985)swimmer
Chris Pang (born 1984)actor

People named Pang with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Pang

Also a first name

Pang has been given to 626 American babies as a first name since 1978, peaking in 1984. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.