Hong

33,012 people in the United States were counted with the surname Hong in the 2020 census, making it the 1,047th most common in the country. That is about one person in 9,054.

By the numbers

People: 33,012
Rank: 1,047th
How common: 1 in 9,054
Per 100,000: 11.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Chinese

or zhx-tai 湯.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 91.9%
White, not Hispanic 3.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.9%
Hispanic or Latino 1.3%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.04%

Notable people called Hong

Hong Myung-bo (born 1969)South Korean association football player and coach
Hong Xiuquan (1814–1864)Chinese revolutionary and leader of Taiping Rebellion
James Hong (born 1929)American actor
Ge Hong (284–364)4th century Chinese scholar and philosopher
Hong Chau (born 1979)American actress
Hong Yong-jo (born 1982)North Korean footballer
Liu Hong (born 1987)Chinese racewalking athlete
Xiao Hong (1911–1942)Chinese writer

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

Surnames like Hong

Also a first name

Hong has been given to 648 American babies as a first name since 1923, peaking in 1982. 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.