Pongs
loc · Latin script
Meaning: place name Düsseldorf (Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Pongs is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Pongs is also written โป่ง in Thai.
- THThailand≈1 in 22Kas พงษ์(inferred from the name graph)
- ISIceland1 in 35Kas Phong
- USUnited States1 in 53Kas Phong
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 Pongs itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 126 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
6,276 named Phong, 2020
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Thailand, est., as พงษ์
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Pongs in other scripts: Thai and Latin
(measured from records)Locally spelled Phong in US United States, LA Laos and โป่ง in TH Thailand.
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)place name Düsseldorf
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Pongs 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 | 6,276as Phong | 1 in 53K | 5.8K | Phong | 70 |
| TH Thailand | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 22K | register #381,473 | โป่ง | 126 |
| SE Sweden | 167as Phong | 1 in 61K | 167 | — | — |
| LA Laos | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 59K | — | Phong | 10 |
| FI Finland | 72as Phong | 1 in 77K | 192 | — | 1 |
| IS Iceland | 10as Phong | 1 in 35K | 10 | — | — |
6,276 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Armin Pongsb. 1968DEGerman author
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pongs mean, and where does it come from?
- place name Düsseldorf Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- Which countries have the most people named Pongs?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 6.3 thousand people named Phong, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Thailand, Sweden, Laos and Finland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Pongs?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,276 people named Phong in 2020, about 1 in 53 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/pongsThe 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, “Pongs” — ranked 3373rd in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.