Tong
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Meaning
a traditional Hmong given name; precise etymology uncertain
How popular is Tong around the world?
In the United States, Tong is not on the Social Security record for 2020 to 2025: names under 5 in a year are withheld at source. In Spain, 80 residents are named Tong, ranked 9,360th among women, with a mean age of 27.3 years.
Tong is on the official records of Spain and Brazil.
United States
under 5 a year
In the United States, Tong is not on the Social Security record for 2020 to 2025: names under 5 in a year are withheld at source.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
Spain
1 in 320,000
In Spain, 80 residents are named Tong, ranked 9,360th among women, with a mean age of 27.3 years.
In Spain, 61 residents are named Tong, ranked 12,435th among men, with a mean age of 37.5 years.
Residents of Spain on 1 January 2025. Spain publishes how old a name’s living bearers are, not a birth series, so there is no year chart. Source: INE (Spain), Censo de Población anual, 1 January 2025
Brazil
At the 2022 census, 21 people in Brazil were named Tong, ranked 120,190th, with a median age of 48.
People alive and resident in Brazil at the 2022 census, a living-population count, not births; names under 20 are withheld at source. Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
South Australia
last on record 2014
Tong is not on the 2017 record for South Australia, whose registry publishes every name given that year.
The count never rose above 2 in a year, too few to chart.
Births registered in South Australia (not all of Australia) by first name and year of registration, 1944–2017, from the state’s Births, Deaths and Marriages registry, which publishes every name down to a single birth in capitals; a spelling its export repeats inside a year is counted once, and from 2018 only a top 100 is published, so the series ends at 2017. Source: Consumer and Business Services (South Australia), popular baby names
Not on the record in Mexico City, Argentina, Puerto Rico, England and Wales, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland and Poland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
Not on the Chile record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 5 registrations in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the Montevideo record for 1940 to 2011: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the Austria record for 1984 to 2025: Statistik Austria publishes every first name down to a single birth, so this name was not given there in those years (before 2010 the record covers babies with Austrian citizenship only). Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.
When you meet Tong
Most people given the name Tong in the United States were born between 1980 and 1999. The Tong you meet today is most often in her 20s or 30s.
Estimated from US Social Security birth registrations and typical lifespans; a rough guide, not a rule.
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The Tong deep dive
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