Wong

Wong is the 271st most common surname in the United States, shared by 112,062 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 2,667.

By the numbers

People: 112,062
Rank: 271st
How common: 1 in 2,667
Per 100,000: 37.5

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 Wong described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 84.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 6.0%
Hispanic or Latino 4.5%
White, not Hispanic 3.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.04%

Notable people called Wong

Lawrence Wong (born 1972)Prime Minister of Singapore since 2024
Faye Wong (born 1969)Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actress
Anna May Wong (1905–1961)Chinese American actress
Benedict Wong (born 1971)British actor
Joshua Wong (born 1996)Hong Kong politician
BD Wong (born 1960)American actor
Ali Wong (born 1982)American comedian and actress
Fann Wong (born 1971)Singaporean actress and singer

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

Surnames like Wong

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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.