Pon is a surname in various cultures

Pon
Language(s)Chinese, Tamil, others
Origin
Meaning
Other names
Variant form(s)

Origins

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Pon may be:

Statistics

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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

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People with the surname Pon include:

People with the surname Du Pon include:

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

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  1. ^ Hanks, Patrick, ed. (2003). A Dictionary of American Family Names. Vol. 3. Oxford University Press. p. 115. ISBN 0195081374.
  2. ^ Hanks 2003, p. 44
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ "பொன்". Tamil Lexicon. University of Madras. 1924. Retrieved 8 September 2018 – via University of Chicago Digital Dictionaries of South Asia.
  5. ^ "Pon, du". Nederlandse Familienamenbank. Centrum voor familiegeschiedenis. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
  6. ^ "Pon". Nederlandse Familienamenbank. Centrum voor familiegeschiedenis. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
  7. ^ "How common is your last name?". Newsday. Retrieved 5 September 2018.