Chong

At the 2020 census, 15,474 Americans bore the surname Chong — 2,297th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 19,300.

By the numbers

People: 15,474
Rank: 2,297th
How common: 1 in 19,300
Per 100,000: 5.2

Where the name comes from

Borrowed from hak, yue, hak, yue, hak, Korean ^정(鄭), etc.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Chong described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 78.6%
Hispanic or Latino 9.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 7.0%
White, not Hispanic 3.3%
Black, not Hispanic 1.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.09%

Notable people called Chong

Wang Chong (27–97)1st century Chinese meteorologist, astronomer, and philosopher
Tahith Chong (born 1999)Curaçaoan association football player
Ho Chong (1896–1988)Korean politician and independence activist
Tommy Chong (born 1938)Canadian actor and comedian
Annabel Chong (born 1972)Singaporean-American pornographic actress
Rae Dawn Chong (born 1961)Canadian-American actress
He Chong (born 1987)Chinese diver
Steevy Chong Hue (born 1990)Tahitian footballer

People named Chong with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Chong

Also a first name

Chong has been given to 562 American babies as a first name since 1926, peaking in 1989. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.