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Across the world, Pongo (Pongo , Mpongo , Mpongi ) is a rare unisex given name. The given name Pongo is habitual in South Africa, where it is a rare unisex name, Tanzania, where it is a very rare masculine name, and Italy, where it is a very rare gender-neutral name. Not in comparison with a country's population, it is the most numerous in Indonesia, South Africa, and Tanzania. Much more prevalently, Pongo is the last name as well as the forename.
Pongo is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Pongo , the fictional Dalmatian from 101 Dalmatians, One Hundred and One Dalmatians and Pongo Twistleton , the fiction character by P. G. Wodehouse.