Given name & surname
Trong
“one who is respected”
Trong is used as a given name and a surname. One Vietnamese interpretation is “one who is respected.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Vietnamese interpretation is “one who is respected.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Vietnamese.
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
Trong through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 61
- 61 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1992
- 12 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 1995. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 12 in 1992. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,589 as a first name in 2020; 149 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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