How rare is the name Hong?

21,082 people in the United States have the first name Hong, about 1 in 14,327. It ranks #1,548 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

HONG

#1,548

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
21,082
About
1 in 14,327
This common or more
75.5%
Who bears it

Of the 21,082 people named Hong, 98.4% reported their origin as Asian or Pacific Islander. 70.6% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Hong peaked in 1982, when 66 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19232006
Peak year
1982
Births that year
66
In 2006
8 ▼88%
Recorded as
mostly female

At least 648 babies have been given the name since 1923. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Hong by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #4,098. The largest share of babies named Hong, 73.1%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1920s#10,61717
1970s#11,35956
1980s#4,098378
1990s#9,578156
2000s#25,81141
Greatest Generation 1901–272.6%
Generation X 1965–8014.5%
Millennials 1981–9673.1%
Generation Z 1997–129.7%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Either side of Hong

#1,546 Jeanine · 21,164#1,547 Nestor · 21,159#1,549 Imani · 21,080#1,550 Lamar · 21,069

Spelled almost the same

2 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Hong, most common first.

#2,532 Hoang · 9,594#31,173 Houng · 276

Also a last name

As a last name, Hong ranks #1,047 of 156,621, with 33,012 people. See Hong as a last name

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