Pon (surname)
Pon is a surname in various cultures
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Origins
Pon may be:
- An English surname, of unexplained origin[1]
- An alternative romanisation of the Chinese surname spelled in Mandarin Pinyin as Pān (潘), which originated as a toponymic surname[2]
- An alternative romanisation of the Chinese surname spelled in Mandarin Pinyin as Pán (盤/盘), which some say originated from Pangu.
- A Tamil name (பொன்), meaning "gold"; Tamils and other peoples of South India traditionally use patronymics rather than surnames[3][4]
Statistics
In the Netherlands, there were 62 people with the surname Pon and 170 people with the surname Du Pon as of 2007.[5][6] (See tussenvoegsel.)
The 2010 United States Census found 1,419 people with the surname Pon, making it the 19,145th-most-common name in the country, up from 1,298 (19,313rd-most-common) in the 2000 Census. In both censuses, slightly fewer than three-quarters of the bearers of the surname identified as Asian, and between 10% and 15% as White.[7]
People
People with the surname Pon include:
- Ben Pon Sr. (1904–1968), Dutch automotive businessman
- Maurice Pon (1921–2019), French lyricist
- Ben Pon (1936–2019), Dutch vintner, son of Ben Pon Sr.
- Jeff Tien Han Pon (born 1970), American government official
- Josephine Pon (born 1970s), Canadian politician
People with the surname Du Pon include:
- André du Pon (1924–2006), Dutch sailor
- Dorothea du Pon (born 1943), Dutch diver
People with the patronymic Pon (either in full, or as an abbreviation) include:
- Pon Arunachalam (born 1946), Indian writer
- Pon Selvarasa (born 1946), Sri Lankan politician, Member of Parliament
- Pon Sivakumaran (1950–1974), Sri Lankan Tamil militant
- Pon Radhakrishnan (born 1952), Indian politician, member of the Lok Sabha
- Pon Sivapalan (1952–1998), Sri Lankan politician, mayor of Jaffna
- Pon. Muthuramalingam (fl. 1980s), Indian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu
- Pon Navarasu (died 1996), Indian student murdered in a ragging incident
- Pon. Vijayaraghavan (fl. 1970s–1980s), Indian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu
- Pon Kumaran (fl. 2010s), Indian screenwriter and director
- Pon. Raja (fl. 2016), Indian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu
References
- Hanks, Patrick, ed. (2003). A Dictionary of American Family Names. Vol. 3. Oxford University Press. p. 115. ISBN 0195081374.
- Hanks 2003, p. 44
- Hanks, Patrick; Coates, Richard; McClure, Peter, eds. (2016). The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland. Oxford University Press. pp. xlvi, 2139. ISBN 9780192527479.
- "பொன்". Tamil Lexicon. University of Madras. 1924. Retrieved 8 September 2018 – via University of Chicago Digital Dictionaries of South Asia.
- "Pon, du". Nederlandse Familienamenbank. Centrum voor familiegeschiedenis. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
- "Pon". Nederlandse Familienamenbank. Centrum voor familiegeschiedenis. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
- "How common is your last name?". Newsday. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
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