Pun (surname)
According to statistics cited by Patrick Hanks, there were 783 people with this surname on the island of Great Britain and six on the island of Ireland as of 2011.[2] The 2010 United States Census found 1,197 people with the surname Pun, making it the 21,736th-most-common name in the country. This represented an increase from 861 people (26,614th-most-common) in the 2000 Census. In both censuses, more than four-fifths of the bearers of the surname identified as Asian.[3]
| Language(s) | Chinese, English, Magar |
|---|---|
| Other names | |
| Variant form(s) | Chinese: Pan, Poon |
Pun is a surname. It may be:
- A surname of the Magar people in Nepal (पुन)[1]
- An English surname of unexplained origin[2]
- A Cantonese spelling of the Chinese surname transcribed as Pān in Mandarin Pinyin (潘)[2]
Notable people with this surname include:
- Tul Bahadur Pun (1923–2011), Nepali rifleman of the Royal Gurkha Rifles and recipient of the Victoria Cross
- Om Prasad Pun (born 1942), Nepali boxer
- Narayan Singh Pun (c. 1949–2008), Nepali politician, member of the House of Representatives
- Serge Pun (born 1953), Burmese businessman of Chinese descent
- Mahabir Pun (born 1955), Nepali teacher and social entrepreneur
- Pun Kwok-shan (born 1961), Hong Kong politician
- Nanda Kishor Pun (born 1966), Nepali politician, second Vice-President of Nepal
- Dipprasad Pun (born c. 1980), Nepali sergeant of the Royal Gurkha Rifles and recipient of the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross
- Sagar Pun (born 1993), Nepali cricketer
- Barsaman Pun, Nepali politician, former Minister of Finance
Notes
- Burmese names do not have surnames
References
- Noonan, Michael (2008). "The politicization of language in west-central Nepal". In Saxena, Anju; Borin, Lars (eds.). Lesser-Known Languages of South Asia: Status and Policies, Case Studies and Applications of Information Technology. Walter de Gruyter. p. 173. ISBN 9783110197785.
- Hanks, Patrick; Coates, Richard; McClure, Peter, eds. (2016). The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland. Oxford University Press. p. 2179. ISBN 9780192527479.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- "How common is your last name?". Newsday. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
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