All over the world, โปง (Pong 
, โปง 
) is quite a rare dominantly masculine, but seldom feminine forename. The forename โปง is characteristic of Hong Kong, where it is quite a common predominantly male, but scarcely female name, Macao, where it is quite a common masculine name, and Singapore, where it is a rare epicene name. Measured by absolute frequency, it most frequently occurs in Hong Kong, Indonesia, and China. Likewise, โปง is the last name as well as the forename.
โปง is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Pong Krell , character in Star Wars: Galactic Defense; Pong , the operatic character in the opera Turandot by Giacomo Puccini; head chef of the Imperial Kitchen and Pong Pagong , the fictional animal character, Batibot.