Given name & surname
Cong
“a clever girl”·“a clever man”
Cong is used as a given name and a surname. Interpretations include “a clever girl” (Chinese) and “a clever man” (Chinese). These may reflect different naming traditions.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Interpretations include “a clever girl” (Chinese) and “a clever man” (Chinese). These may reflect different naming traditions.
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Chinese.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1982. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Cong through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 48
- 48 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1983
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 1992. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,513 as a first name in 2020; 1,334 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Cong’s family of names
In Indonesian usage, Cong as a surname has a related form in TJONG.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Cong
- Fou Ts'ongChinese-British pianist (1934-2020)
- Liu Congemperor of Han Zhao300–318
- Li CongChinese astronaut (born 1989)
- Liu CongSecond son of Chinese warlord Liu Biao101–201
- Shi CongChinese artistic gymnastborn 2001
- Seol ChongKorean Confucian scholar (650 - 730 AD)655
- Wang CongChinese boxerborn 1992
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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