Given name & surname
Pang
“one who is innovative”
Pang is used as a given name and a surname. One Chinese interpretation is “one who is innovative.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Chinese interpretation is “one who is innovative.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Chinese.
How it developed
In English usage, Pang as a surname developed from បាង.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1978. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Pang through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 626
- 11 boys · 615 girls
- Most popular year
- 1990
- 45 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 11 in 1999. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 44 in 1984. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,692 as a first name in 2020; 8,284 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Pang’s family of names
In Filipino usage, Pang as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with FUNG. In English usage, Pang as a surname developed from the Khmer form បាង.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Pang
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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