Pan is from the Japanese anime — a modern formation possibly from the Greek god Pan (referencing the iconic foundational Peter Pan in Akira Toriyama's foundational naming convention). A modern American baby name in the broader Japanese anime heritage aesthetic. Pan is a foundational female character in the Japanese manga/anime franchise Dragon Ball Z (1988-1995), Dragon Ball GT (1996-1997), and Dragon Ball Super (2015-present) — created by Akira Toriyama (1955-2024). The iconic foundational Dragon Ball manga has sold over 350 million copies worldwide. Pan is the daughter of Gohan and Videl and the granddaughter of Goku and Chi-Chi — making her the foundational quarter-Saiyan female heroine of the Dragon Ball universe and one of the foundational mixed-heritage female characters in modern shonen anime. The foundational protagonist of Dragon Ball GT (alongside Goku and Trunks), where she joins their interstellar quest to retrieve the Black Star Dragon Balls — making her one of the foundational young female protagonists in 1990s anime. Her iconic orange bandana, blue gi, and energetic personality make her one of the iconic Dragon Ball character designs of the late 1990s + 2010s.
Featured throughout Japanese anime.
Pan does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Pan reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.