Pun (surname)

Pun
Language(s)	Chinese, English, Magar or Magar Kham
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 Hanyu Pinyin (潘)^[2]

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]

Notable people with this surname include:

Tul Bahadur Pun VC (1923–2011), Nepali rifleman of the Royal Gurkha Rifles, Honorary Lieutenant-recipient of the Victoria Cross
Om Prasad Pun (born 1942), Nepali boxer
Narayan Singh Pun (1949-2008), Nepali politician, member of the House of Representatives, pilot and lieutenant colonel in the Royal Nepal Army, founding president of Nepal Samata Party
Serge Pun (潘繼澤; born 1953), Burmese businessman of Chinese descent. Founder of Serge Pun & (Hong Kong) Ltd, Chairman of (SPA Group), multi-national Real estate firm and Yoma Bank (Burma-largest Private Bank)
Mahabir Pun (born 1955), Nepali teacher and social entrepreneur, Magsaysay Award winner for extending wireless technologies in rural parts of Nepal, web (wireless) pioneers of Nepal.
Pun Kwok-shan (潘國山; born 1961), Hong Kong politician
Nanda Kishor Pun (born 1966), Nepali politician, second Vice-President of Nepal, former chief commander of the People's Liberation Army
Barsaman Pun (born 1971), Nepali politician, former Minister of Energy, Water Resource & Irrigation and currently Minister of Finance.
Dipprasad Pun, CGC (born 1980), Nepali sergeant of the Royal Gurkha Rifles (British Army), recipient of the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross
Sagar Pun (born 1993), Nepali cricketer
Pun Wai-yan (潘慧欣; born 1995), Hong Kong rugby union player
Raymond Pun (潘宏), American research librarian
Pun Sing-lui (潘星磊), Hong Kong performance artist

^ 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.
^ ^a ^b ^c 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.
^ "How common is your last name?". Newsday. Retrieved 5 September 2018.

[1] 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-2] 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.

[3] "How common is your last name?". Newsday. Retrieved 5 September 2018.

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