Fong
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Fong is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Hong Kong it is the 95th most common surname. In English, recorded as A kick.
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 280(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 1.1K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 1.8K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 437 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 280 (inferred from the name graph)
≈130,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Hong Kong, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A kick.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Fong is read(measured from records)
Fong is one spelling over 4 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.
- English68%
A kick.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Malay9.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Fong in Malay.
- Chinese6.1%
Brick (square)
as a wordrecorded as wuuA Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
- Spanish5.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Fong in Spanish.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Fong 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Fong | 61 |
| MY Malaysia | #135 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Fong | 121 |
| HK Hong Kong | #95 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 280 | — | Fong | 117 |
| US United States | — | 17,889 | 1 in 19K | 18K | Fong | 437 |
| CA Canada | #662 | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | — | Fong | 205 |
| SG Singapore | #114 | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Fong | 155 |
| AU Australia | #725 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | 1 | Fong | 192 |
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; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)
Fong is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In yol, A thin strip of raw hide used by saddlers in sewing.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Luxembourgish, bottom
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, fungus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kos, night
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)
- Hiram Fongb. 1906USAmerican politician (1906–2004)
- Benson Fongb. 1916USAmerican actor (1916-1987)
- Fang Lizhib. 1936CNnot in their usual nameProfessor of astrophysics; civil rights activist and dissident (1936–2012)
- Margaret Chanb. 1947CNnot in their usual nameChinese-Canadian physician (born 1947)
- Jackie Chanb. 1954CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actor and martial artist (born 1954)
- Feng Shaofengb. 1978CNnot in their usual nameChinese actor
- Jaycee Chanb. 1982USnot in their usual nameVivio Mucho en El Puente Del Marconi
- Khalil Fongb. 1983USHong Kong singer (1983–2025)
- Feng Tianweib. 1986SGnot in their usual nameChinese-born Singaporean table tennis player
- Larry Fongb. 2000USAmerican cinematographer
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)
Attested in 44 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 18K | #2,018 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 18K | #1,996 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 17K | #2,002 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Fong mean, and where does it come from?
- A kick. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Fong have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 131 thousand people named Fong in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fong.
- How common is the name Fong?
- In the United States, the national register counted 17,889 people named Fong in 2010, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
- How common is Fong compared with other names?
- In Hong Kong, Fong is the 95th most common surname of 8,142 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fongThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Fong” — the 95th most common surname in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.