Kobong
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Indonesian: dormitory room in pondok pesantrens
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Kobong is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country.
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 135Kas 고봉(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States≈1 in 164Mas Gobong
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kobong itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- South Korea (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 10 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 135K (inferred from the name graph)
≈390 named 고봉, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
South Korea, est., as 고봉
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled 고봉 in KR South Korea and Gobong in US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
dormitory room in pondok pesantrens
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Kobong is read(measured from records)
Kobong is one spelling over 3 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.
- Indonesian49%
dormitory room in pondok pesantrens
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Swahili20%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Kobong in Swahili.
- English17%
A totem animal, among certain indigenous Australian peoples.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Kobong 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KR South Korea | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 135K | 고봉 | 8 |
| US United States | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 164M | Gobong | 10 |
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.
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)
Kobong 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 max, garden, plantation, orchard
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kobong mean, and where does it come from?
- dormitory room in pondok pesantrens Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Kobong have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 385 people named 고봉 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Kobong?
- Mondonomo estimates about 390 people in South Korea have 고봉 as their first given name, about 1 in 135 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kobongThe 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, “Kobong”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.