Given name & surname · also Khmer
Vong
Vong is a surname from Khmer, ultimately from Lao.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Vong comes from Khmer, and ultimately from Lao.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In English usage, Vong as a surname developed from វង្ស.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1980. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Vong through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 124
- 124 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1993
- 16 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 1996. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 16 in 1993. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 712 as a first name in 2020; 4,846 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.
Vong’s family of names
In English usage, Vong as a surname developed from the Khmer form វង្ស.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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