Given name & surname · also Vietnamese
Ong
Ong is a surname from Vietnamese, ultimately from Chinese. It is used in English, Tagalog, Indonesian, and Cebuano.
Original Chinese翁
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Ong comes from Vietnamese, and ultimately from Chinese.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In English usage, Ong as a surname developed from Ông. In English usage, Ong as a surname developed from 翁.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1989. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ong through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 52
- 0 boys · 52 girls
- Most popular year
- 1989
- 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 girls is 5 in 1999. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 14 in 1989. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 402 as a first name in 2020; 10,488 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.
Ong’s family of names
In Filipino usage, Ong as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with Heng. In Filipino usage, Ong as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with WANG. In Indonesian usage, Ong as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with WONG.
The ring: across languages.
Around the world
Ong has relatives in 5 languages. Lines run from its Chinese roots to each of them.
Chinesewhere Ong comes from · 1 name
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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