Pan is one of the surnames in China, ranking 36th among surnames in China today, accounting for about 0.48% of the national population. There is also the Pan Shi family living in the Korean Peninsula and Viet Nam.

Pan's surname originated from other ethnic minorities and belongs to the sinicization and surname change. Among today's ethnic minorities such as Shui, Jing, Tujia, Yi, Yao, Mulao, Hui, Zhuang and Buyi, there are Pan clan members.

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population migration

At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Pan Chengyou's ancestors moved from Zhongmou in Xingyang to Fujian and Guangdong, so they took their surnames. In the early Five Dynasties, Zugui, a native of Youzhou, was killed by Liu Shouguang. Pan You's father, Pan Chu, often fled and went south to Nantang.

During the Song Dynasty, Pan Mei's family moved from Daming to Kaifeng, and then moved to Shanxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shandong and other places. Shandong branch is about to turn to Hunan. After the festival, people moved to Guangdong and Yunnan. According to genealogy records, a branch of Putian in Fujian moved to South Korea, and a descendant of Pan You, a bachelor of Duanming Temple in Southern Tang Dynasty, moved to Koryo and became the founder of Pan's surname to Korea and North Korea.

Yuan, Ming, Qing and Pan surnames have been distributed all over the country.