Pan (surname)

Pan (surname)

Pan (潘) is a Chinese family name.

A Chinese surname that is often romanized as Poon, Pun, or Pon. [citeweb|url=http://www.ancestry.com/facts/pan-family-history.ashx|title=Ancestry, Pan Name Meaning and History|publisher=www.ancestry.com|accessdate=2008-10-05] The surname also sees use in Korea and Vietnam (there spelled Phan), though the origins within those countries may not be the same as the Chinese one.

One source lists Ji Sun, a descendant of Zhou Wen Wang as to being the origin of this surname. [citeweb|url=http://www.yutopian.com/names/14/14pan52.html|title=Yutopian, origin of the surname Pan, Poon|publisher=www.yutopian.com|accessdate=2008-06-11] With his descendants having taken up the name of the area he governed, situated north of Shaanxi.

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