Khong

surname · Latin script

Meaning: unexplained

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/kɔŋ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Khong is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 317K(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 192K
  • NONorway1 in 228K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

1,048 people, 2010

Sources
213 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 192K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

unexplained.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Khong 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.

Where Khong is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—1,0481 in 317K1.4KKhong213
FI Finland—291 in 192K29——
CH Switzerland—271 in 311K27—4
NO Norway—241 in 228K24——
DK Denmark—121 in 489K12——
RE Réunion#121———Khong1

1,048 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Khong is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Malay surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, United States

    Languages: Malay, Indonesian

    Also written Không, Khổng

  • a separate surname20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Malaysia, United Kingdom, Singapore

    Also written Khổng, Không, Kȟông, Khõng, K̡̤̫̗̗̬̣͖͇͉̓̅̉͊̊͊͊̍͌͝h̡̖͓͉̹̖̠͖͖̿͊̋͑̀̄̎̃̕͜͝ồ̤̞̥͔̖͚̙̬͓͎͌̅͐͛͒̍̿̚͝ṋ̡̨̞̖̩̺͈͔̮̇̀̓́̍̉̓̿̕͝g̢̦̪̪̗̫̪̥̲̎̏̔̄̀͌̂́̓̕͜

  • Hungarian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, United States, Singapore, Hungary

    Also written Khổng, Không

43 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Khong is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In nut, poor

    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)

18001850190019502000Kuang Yuan, b. 1815Kuang Peizi, b. 1932Rachel Khong, b. 1985Khổng Tú Quỳnh, b. 1991Khổng Thị Hằng, b. 1993R.F. Kuang, b. 1996Khổng Mỹ Phượng, b. 1999

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)

FormalDear Khong,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 22 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Khong
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.4K#19,517
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101K#24,049
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000793#28,353
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—29#39,115
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202427#29,501
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—24#39,699
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—12#34,493
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Khong mean, and where does it come from?
unexplained. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Khong?
A machine transcription gives /kɔŋ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Khong have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.0 thousand people named Khong, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled khong.
Where is Khong most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Khong is densest in Finland — about 1 in 192 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Khong?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,048 people named Khong in 2010, about 1 in 317 thousand residents.
How common is Khong compared with other names?
In Réunion, Khong is the 121st most common surname of 3,012 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Khong” — the 121st most common surname in Réunion. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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