Pon

See also: Appendix:Variations of "pon"

English

Etymology

Chinese surname, variant Romanizations of:

• 潘 and 盤 / 盘 (pán) (see Pan)
• 彭 (see Peng)
• possibly Romanized from names such as 邦 (bāng)), monosyllabic personal names.

Proper noun

Pon (plural Pons)

1. A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Pon is the 19145^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1419 individuals. Pon is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (73.01%) and White (12.12%) individuals.

Anagrams

• NOP, NPO, Nop, ONP, OPN, nop

Indonesian

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

Pon

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Etymology

Borrowed from Javanese Pon (“a day of the five-day week”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈpon/ [ˈpon]
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: Pon
• Homophones: pon, PON

Proper noun

Pon

1. a day of the five-day week.

Further reading

• “Pon”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016