Yong

3,162 people in the United States were counted with the surname Yong in the 2020 census, making it the 9,779th most common in the country. That is about one person in 94,500.

By the numbers

People: 3,162
Rank: 9,779th
How common: 1 in 94,500
Per 100,000: 1.1

Where the name comes from

The romanization of various Chinese and Korean surnames, including cmn, yue, hak, yue, Korean ^용(龍), etc.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 76.6%
Hispanic or Latino 10.6%
White, not Hispanic 5.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Black, not Hispanic 3.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.09%

Notable people called Yong

Jin Yong (1924–2018)Hong Kong writer
Lee Yong (born 1986)South Korean footballer
Cai Yong (133–192)Chinese official and scholar
Shao Yong (1011–1077)Chinese philosopher, mathematician, and scholar under the Song dynasty
Ch'oe Yŏng (1316–1388)Korean general
Lu Yong (born 1986)weightlifter
Yong Jun-hyung (born 1989)South Korean singer
Zhuang Yong (born 1972)Chinese swimmer

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

Surnames like Yong

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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.