Bong
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: The clang of a large bell
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bɑŋ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bong is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 4.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 19K
- USUnited States1 in 168K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 257 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
to be peeled off, to be flaked off
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Bong is read(measured from records)
Bong is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English41%
The clang of a large bell.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Indonesian16%
Chinese graveyard
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Vietnamese13%
to be peeled off, to be flaked off
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Korean11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Bong in Korean.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bong counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 18K | listed | — | 4 |
| VN Vietnam | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.8K | listed | — | 2 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈6,700 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | — | Bong | 86 |
| PH Philippines | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Bong | 71 |
| US United States | 1,984 | 1 in 168K | 1.3K | Bong | 257 |
| HK Hong Kong | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Bong | 30 |
| VU Vanuatu | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 9.7K | 1 | — | 3 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Vanuatu Electoral Office — 2022 Snap Election consolidated candidate list; the id-github-names register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Bong is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Lao, bot. à type of thornless bamboo, with longer sections, Bambusa tulda. : uj (Sanskrit) v. transplant. kx v LOYU v. plant trees. — 6071. v. transplant vegetables. 3 03 (Pali) n. mud, : UJ (Pali) bot. lotus. - na bot. lotus
as a wordLao-English Dictionary
In Swedish, A kitchen ticket, an order ticket; a slip where waiting staff notes guests' orders, used by the kitchen or bar to prepare items, and to totaling the check.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Cebuano, a diminutive of the male given names Bonito or Bonifacio
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Crown Princess Sunbin Bongb. 1414second consort of the crown prince of Joseon.
- Richard Ira Bongb. 1920USUnited States Air Force Medal of Honor recipient (1920–1945)
- Bong Hye-seonb. 1948KRSouth Korean actress
- Jörg Bongb. 1966DEGerman translator, publisher, literary editor and writer
- Bong Joon-hob. 1969KRSouth Korean filmmaker (born 1969)
- Bong Man-daeb. 1970KRSouth-Korean actor, assistant director, director and scriptwriter also known as a soft-core film director
- Bong Jung-keunb. 1980KRSouth Korean baseball player
- Bong Tae-gyub. 1981KRSouth Korean actor (1981-)
- Gaëtan Bongb. 1988CMCameroonian and French footballer
- Bong Jae-hyunb. 1999KRSouth Korean singer and actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 34 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.1K | #7,627 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 882 | #7,627 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1986 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1981 | 5 | — |
| VU Vanuatu | Vanuatu Electoral Office — 2020 General Election consolidated candidate list | 2020 | 1 | #7 |
| VU Vanuatu | Vanuatu Electoral Office — 2022 Snap Election consolidated candidate list | 2022 | 1 | #7 |
| ID Indonesia | KPU voter-roll name tokens (GitHub) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Bong come from?
- to be peeled off, to be flaked off Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Bong?
- A machine transcription gives /bɑŋ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Bong mean?
- In English, The clang of a large bell.
- Is Bong a male or female name?
- Bong is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Bong have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Bong in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Bong?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,984 people named Bong in 2020, about 1 in 168 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bongThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Bong”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.