Where Does the Panik Surname Come From?

People called Panik share their surname's story with Panek, of which it is a variant. Taken at its root, Panik points to “Little lord”.

• Other spellings include Pańko.
• Spelled with “i” instead of “e”, Panik shows how the same name was heard and written differently.
• Panik ranked 50,771 in the 2010 US Census, with 411 people answering to the name. That is enough to place it in the top 100,000 American surnames.
• Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them.

Family crest and blazon

Arms linked to Panek and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. Research your Panik family history with a full surname report and painted coat of arms.