Delong
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/dəˈɫɔŋ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Delong is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 19K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 24K
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
- 404 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈120,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
North Korea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Delong 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 | — | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Delong | 7 |
| US United States | — | 17,844 | 1 in 19K | 18K | Delong | 404 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 83K | — | Delong | 21 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Delong | 60 |
| KP North Korea | #908 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Delong | 2 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Delong | 125 |
| LY Libya | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Delong | 1 |
| IS Iceland | — | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Delong | 2 |
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. 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)
- Charles E. DeLongb. 1832USAmerican politician and diplomat
- Dwight M. DeLongb. 1892USUS entomologist
- Jacques-Richard Delongb. 1921FRFrench politician (1921–2012)
- Armin Delongb. 1925CZCzech physicist and scientist (1925-2017)
- Nate DeLongb. 1926USAmerican basketball player (1926-2010)
- Mahlon DeLongb. 1938USAmerican neurologist
- Alana DeLongb. 1948CACanadian politician
- Candice DeLongb. 1950USformer FBI criminal profiler and criminologist
- Bradford DeLongb. 1960USAmerican economist
- Lee Delongb. 1963FRFrench actress
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 18K | #2,022 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 18K | #1,875 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 17K | #2,107 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- How do you pronounce Delong?
- A machine transcription gives /dəˈɫɔŋ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Delong have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 125 thousand people named Delong in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled delong.
- How common is the name Delong?
- In the United States, the national register counted 17,844 people named Delong in 2010, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
- How common is Delong compared with other names?
- In North Korea, Delong is the 908th most common surname of 2,439 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/delongThe 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, “Delong” — the 908th most common surname in North Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.