Dong

18,669 people in the United States were counted with the surname Dong in the 2020 census, making it the 1,887th most common in the country. That is about one person in 16,000.

By the numbers

People: 18,669
Rank: 1,887th
How common: 1 in 16,000
Per 100,000: 6.3

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 94.3%
White, not Hispanic 2.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.9%
Hispanic or Latino 0.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.03%

Notable people called Dong

Dong Fangzhuo (born 1985)Chinese footballer
Dong Biwu (1886–1975)former acting President of the People's Republic of China
Dong Zhongshu (178 BC–103 BC)Premier Confucian scholar, philosopher, and official during the Western Han
Dong Zhuo (139–192)Chinese general and warlord during the late Han (2nd century)
Dong Qichang (1555–1636)Chinese painter, scholar, calligrapher, and art theorist
Dong Dong (born 1989)Chinese trampoline gymnast
Dong Yuan (934–962)10th-century Chinese artist
Chen Dong (born 1978)Chinese taikonaut

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

Surnames like Dong

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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.