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Worldwide, Tōng (通 , 荡 , 蕩 ) is a common primarily boy's, but very infrequently feminine given name. The first name Tōng is characteristic of Eastern Asia, particularly China, where it is quite a rare principally male, but scarcely female name. Very seldom, Tōng is the last name as well as the forename.
Tōng is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Zhou Tong , the Water Margin character and Luo Tong , the protagonist of historical novel "Luo Tong Exterminating the North", Tales of Tang.