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Pun (surname)

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Pun
Language(s)Chinese, English, Magar or Magar Kham
Other names
Variant form(s)Chinese: Pan, Poon

Pun is a surname. It may be:

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

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Burmese names do not have surnames

References

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  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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ "How common is your last name?". Newsday. Retrieved 5 September 2018.