Given name & surname
Kong
“a bright man; from heaven”
Kong is used as a given name and a surname. One Chinese interpretation is “a bright man; from heaven.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Chinese interpretation is “a bright man; from heaven.”
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 1979. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kong through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 935
- 935 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1993
- 74 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 6 in 2012. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 74 in 1993. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,654 as a first name in 2020; 15,493 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.
Kong’s family of names
In English usage, Kong as a surname has a related form in Kongbam. In English usage, Kong as a surname has a related form in Kongbam surname of Meitei origin. In English usage, Kong as a surname has a related form in KONGKHAM.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 5
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 9
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Hungequivalent
- Hongequivalent
- Guangequivalent
- Gongequivalent
- 光equivalent
- 孔equivalent
- 鞏equivalent
- 空equivalent
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People named Kong
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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