The surname’s pronunciations and inclusion are recorded in reference works including Shanxi Dictionary of Population Surnames, New Compendium of a Thousand Surnames, and Dictionary of Surnames; its origin is also listed in Comprehensive Genealogy of Ten Thousand Surnames.
A branch traditionally identified with Ming imperial descendants is said to have left Beijing in separate groups and temporarily settled in Yutian County, Tangshan, Hebei. Today, the surname is mainly distributed in Beijing, Hebei, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Sichuan, and Taiwan.
Existing Pang family genealogies mostly date from the late Qing period onward and were written by branch families, generally covering no more than seven generations. In the cited statistics, most people identify Yutian County, Tangshan, Hebei, as their ancestral home, while a small number identify Chaoyang, Beijing.
The surname is recorded with two pronunciations, pán and pàng. The Chaoyang, Beijing branch is described as having adopted the surname from the Yehenara clan in the late Qing period and as unrelated to the Zhu-descended branches in other regions.
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