Kong

At the 2020 census, 15,493 Americans bore the surname Kong — 2,293rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 19,300.

By the numbers

People: 15,493
Rank: 2,293rd
How common: 1 in 19,300
Per 100,000: 5.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Chinese

Borrowed from cmn or yue.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 88.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
White, not Hispanic 3.5%
Hispanic or Latino 1.9%
Black, not Hispanic 1.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.05%

Notable people called Kong

Kong Linghui (born 1975)Chinese table tennis player
Vivian Kong Man-wai (born 1994)member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, Hong Kong female politician, and ex-Hong Kong female fencer
Kong Rong (153–208)Chinese official, scholar and writer
Kong Shangren (1648–1718)Chinese writer
Kong Fanyu (born 1993)freestyle skier
Kong Hee-yong (born 1996)South Korean badminton player
Kong Anguo (155 BC–73 BC)Chinese scholar and historian during the Han dynasty, responsible for editing the Book of Documents

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

Surnames like Kong

Konrad

Also a first name

Kong has been given to 935 American babies as a first name since 1979, peaking in 1993. 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.