Jong
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Dutch: young
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/jɔŋ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jong is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In the Netherlands it is the 3rd most common surname.
- NLNetherlands1 in 9.6K(measured from records)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 884as Cheong
- SGSingapore≈1 in 1.1Kas Cheong
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Jong itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 311 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.6K (inferred from the name graph)
169,580 named Chen, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
19 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Cheong in MY Malaysia, SG Singapore, HK Hong Kong, Chain in IN India and Chen in CN China.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
distinguishing name, from Middle Dutch de jonc ‘the young’, for the younger of two bearers of the same name, usually a son who bore the same name as his father.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
How Jong is read(measured from records)
Jong is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 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.
- Dutch38%
young
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Dutch
- English31%
A Tibetan building which makes up a prefecture; typically a monastery or fortress.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Erica, US writer
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Korean8.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Jong 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)
Jong 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 169,580as Chen | 1 in 2K | 234K | Jong | 311 |
| CN China | — | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Chen | 50 |
| MY Malaysia | #62 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 884 | 1.7K | Cheong | 134 |
| ES Spain | — | 26,262as Chen | 1 in 1.9K | 26K | Jong | 43 |
| IN India | — | 12,005as Chari | 1 in 110K | 12K | Chain | 69 |
| SG Singapore | #44 | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Cheong | 165 |
| HK Hong Kong | #130 | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Cheong | 69 |
| NL Netherlands | #3 | 1,795 | 1 in 9.6K | 1.8K | Jong | 205 |
169,580 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling chen. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); data.gov.my — Name Popularity Dashboard (JPN, by decade and ethnicity); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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)
Jong 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.
distinguishing name, from Middle Dutch de jonc ‘the young’, for the younger of two bearers of the same name, usually a son who bore the same name as his father.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
variant of Chong.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Malay, Jong (a Javanese-Malay cargo and passenger ship)
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)
- Emperor Wen of Suib. 541CNnot in their usual namefounding emperor of the Sui Dynasty (541-604)
- Chen Ning Yangb. 1922CNnot in their usual nameChinese physicist (1922–2025)
- Erica Jongb. 1942USAmerican novelist, poet, memoirist, critic
- Edward Yangb. 1947TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese film director and screenwriter (1947-2007)
- Michelle Yeohb. 1962MYnot in their usual nameMalaysian actress (born 1962)
- Yang Liweib. 1965CNnot in their usual nameChinese astronaut
- Charlie Yeungb. 1974CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actress
- Miriam Yeungb. 1974CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong singer and actress
- Yang Yangb. 1991CNnot in their usual nameChinese actor
- Yang Zib. 1992CNnot in their usual nameChinese actress
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 44 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.3K | #4,225 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.2K | #4,225 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 31 | #8,955 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 18 | #20,756 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 15 | #17,574 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 6 | #38,231 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1994 | 5 | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Jong come from?
- distinguishing name, from Middle Dutch de jonc ‘the young’, for the younger of two bearers of the same name, usually a son who bore the same name as his father. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Jong?
- A machine transcription gives /jɔŋ/ (IPA) for Dutch.
- What does the name Jong mean?
- In Dutch, young
- What are other forms of the name Jong?
- In the etymology graph, Jung, Trinh and Jeong are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Jong have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 170 thousand people named Chen, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Jong most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jong is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 9.6 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Jong?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 1,795 people named Jong in 2007, about 1 in 9.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Jong compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Jong is the 3rd most common surname of 284,143 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Jong?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jongThe 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, “Jong” — the 3rd most common surname in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.