Cong
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Vietnamese: curved, be bent
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Cong is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 132K(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 58K
- DKDenmark1 in 61K
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)
- Sources
- 89 (measured from records)
- 1 in 58K (inferred from the name graph)
2,513 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Clipping of Vietcong.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
How Cong is read(measured from records)
Cong is one spelling over 2 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.
- Vietnamese82%
curved, be bent
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English9.0%
Clipping of Vietcong.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Cong 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.
2,513 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); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Cong 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 Chinese, nonstandard spelling of cōng
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Indonesian, a surname from Hakka
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bnt-pro, peel
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
In bnt-pro, éplucher
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
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)
- Liu Congb. 101Second son of Chinese warlord Liu Biao
- Liu Congb. 300emperor of Han Zhao
- Seol Chongb. 655not in their usual nameKorean Confucian scholar (650 - 730 AD)
- Fu Congb. 1934GBChinese-British pianist (1934-2020)
- Lê Văn Côngb. 1984VNVietnamese Paralympic powerlifter (born 1984)
- Li Congb. 1989CNChinese astronaut (born 1989)
- Wang Congb. 1992CNChinese boxer
- Nguyễn Văn Côngb. 1992VNVietnamese footballer
- Shi Congb. 2001CNChinese artistic gymnast
- Liu Congson of Liu Chan
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 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.3K | #20,171 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 861 | #27,869 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 650 | #33,169 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 37 | #29,275 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 25 | #21,653 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 12 | #35,389 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 8 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 8 | #149,932 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 7 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 7 | #162,209 |
| 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
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- Where does the name Cong come from?
- Clipping of Vietcong. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Cong mean?
- In Vietnamese, curved, be bent
- Is Cong a male or female name?
- Cong is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Cong have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.5 thousand people named Cong, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cong.
- Where is Cong most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cong is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 58 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Cong?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,513 people named Cong in 2020, about 1 in 132 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/congThe 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, “Cong”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.