Ong

At the 2020 census, 10,488 Americans bore the surname Ong — 3,350th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 28,500.

By the numbers

People: 10,488
Rank: 3,350th
How common: 1 in 28,500
Per 100,000: 3.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Hokkien

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 86.5%
White, not Hispanic 6.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 2.2%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.03%

Notable people called Ong

Ong Teng Cheong (1936–2002)5th President of Singapore
Ong Seongwu (born 1995)South Korean singer
Betty Ong (1956–2001)American flight assistant
Olivia Ong (born 1985)Singaporean actor and singer
Angelia Ong (born 1990)mannequin philippin

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

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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.