Jeong

At the 2020 census, 6,911 Americans bore the surname Jeong — 4,941st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 43,200.

By the numbers

People: 6,911
Rank: 4,941st
How common: 1 in 43,200
Per 100,000: 2.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Korean

Transliteration of Korean 정.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 95.1%
White, not Hispanic 2.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.2%
Hispanic or Latino 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%

1 category is not listed because nobody with this surname reported that background.

Notable people called Jeong

Ken Jeong (born 1969)South Korean-American stand-up comedian and actor
Jeong Na-eun (born 2000)South Korean badminton player
Sarah Jeong (born 1988)American journalist

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

Surnames like Jeong

Jeon

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.