Pan (surname)

Pan (潘)

Pronunciation	Pān (Mandarin) Poon (Cantonese - Hong Kong) Pun (Cantonese - Macau) Phoon (Cantonese - Malaysia) Phua (Hokkien) Phan (Hakka) Phan (Vietnamese) Ban (Korean) Ban (Japanese)
Language(s)	Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese
Origin
Language(s)	Old Chinese
Derivation	Mi (芈)
Other names
Variant form(s)	P'an, Poon, Phoon, Pon, Pun, Phua
Derivative(s)	Phan, Ban, Han

Pān is the Mandarin pinyin romanization of the East Asian surname 潘. It is listed 43rd in the Song dynasty classic text Hundred Family Surnames. It is romanized as P'an in Wade–Giles; Poon, Phoon, Pon, or Pun in Cantonese; Phua in Hokkien and Teochew.

In 2019 it was the 36th most common surname in China.^[1]

潘 is also a common surname in Vietnam and Korea. It is romanized Phan in Vietnamese (not to be confused with Phạm) and Ban or Pan in Korean.