Given name & surname · also Chinese
Fong
Fong is a surname from Cantonese, ultimately from Taishanese.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Fong comes from Cantonese, and ultimately from Taishanese.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1900. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Fong through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 306
- 301 boys · 5 girls
- Most popular year
- 1983
- 27 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 5 in 2001. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 23 in 1989. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,479 as a first name in 2020; 17,667 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.
Fong’s family of names
Fong may belong to the same name family as FONNG. This is a tentative spelling connection.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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