Tong

14,765 people in the United States were counted with the surname Tong in the 2020 census, making it the 2,409th most common in the country. That is about one person in 20,200.

By the numbers

People: 14,765
Rank: 2,409th
How common: 1 in 20,200
Per 100,000: 4.9

Where the name comes from

For the surname:, yue, cmn, cmn, etc.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 82.4%
White, not Hispanic 10.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
Hispanic or Latino 2.1%
Black, not Hispanic 1.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.08%

Notable people called Tong

Goh Chok Tong (born 1941)2nd Prime Minister of Singapore from 1990 to 2004
Anote Tong (born 1952)I-Kiribati politician
John Tong Hon (born 1939)Catholic cardinal
Su Tong (born 1963)Chinese writer
Tong Wen (born 1983)Chinese judoka
Tong Jian (born 1979)Chinese pair skater
Pang Tong (179–214)Advisor to Chinese warlord Liu Bei
Trần Nhân Tông (1258–1308)3rd emperor of the Trần dynasty and Đại Việt, Zen buddhist, and national hero of Vietnam

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

Surnames like Tong

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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.