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Around the world, ソング (Song , Thong , ソング ) is a common epicene given name. The forename ソング is habitual in Mongolia, where it is quite a common gender-neutral name, Macao, and Singapore, where it is quite a rare epicene name. Measured by absolute frequency, it is the most numerous in China, Vietnam, and the United States. More prevalently, ソング is the last name as well as the forename.
ソング is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Song Mama , the Dream of the Red Chamber character; Song Nhi , the fictional character from The Deer and the Cauldron; Song Yiren , the Investiture of the Gods character and Song Seller , the operatic character in the opera Il tabarro by Giacomo Puccini.