Given name & surname · also Norwegian
Mong
Mong is a surname from Norwegian, ultimately from Khmer.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Mong comes from Norwegian, and ultimately from Khmer.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Norwegian Mong, from Korean 몽, from Khmer ម៉ុង.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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
Mong through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 110
- 92 boys · 18 girls
- Most popular year
- 1984
- 14 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 2000. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 11 in 1989. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 657 as a first name in 2020; 1,932 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.
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