Leong

8,540 people in the United States were counted with the surname Leong in the 2020 census, making it the 4,035th most common in the country. That is about one person in 35,000.

By the numbers

People: 8,540
Rank: 4,035th
How common: 1 in 35,000
Per 100,000: 2.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Cantonese

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 81.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 9.4%
White, not Hispanic 5.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.06%

Notable people called Leong

Isabella Leong (born 1988)Hong Kong actress and singer
Fish Leong (born 1978)Malaysian singer
Al Leong (born 1952)American actor and stuntman
Leong Mun Yee (born 1984)Malaysian diver

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

Surnames like Leong

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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.