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Jong

Jong is a surname from Hakka. It is used in Indonesian.

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Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Jong comes from Hakka.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1939. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

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Jong through the years

Babies since 1880
74
74 boys · 0 girls
Most popular year
1988
7 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
024619401960198020002025Highest share 19390.0
Jong in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1939–2025, per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1994. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 4,506 as a first name in 2020; 1,215 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.

Jong’s family of names

In Dutch usage, Jong as a surname shares a linguistic root with the English form Young. In Filipino usage, Jong has a related form in John. In English usage, Jong as a surname has a related form in CHUNG.

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JongJōngJohnChungDjongYoungZong宗

Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

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Around the world

Jong has relatives in 4 languages.

English

4 related names in 4 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.

Each dot marks where a language is rooted, not where people with the name live today. Bigger dots hold more names. Dots on the border stand for languages further away. Language locations from Glottolog (CC BY 4.0); map from Natural Earth.

Nicknames & forms 3

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 3

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

People named Jong

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surnames

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Alemannic German

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Hakka

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