Rong
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Misspelling of wrong
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Rong is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 84K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 85K
- ISIceland1 in 117K
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
- 225 (measured from records)
- 1 in 84K (inferred from the name graph)
3,975 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Occupational or nickname surname from the Rung(e)/Rong(e) group; bearer count 97.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Rong is read(measured from records)
Rong 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.
- English42%
Misspelling of wrong.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Chinese34%
nonstandard spelling of rōng
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Rong 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 3,975 | 1 in 84K | 2.6K | Rong | 225 |
| ES Spain | — | 157 | 1 in 319K | 157 | — | 9 |
| SE Sweden | — | 120 | 1 in 85K | 120 | — | 5 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 72 | 1 in 240K | 59 | Rong | 14 |
| BR Brazil | — | 48 | 1 in 4.4M | 108 | — | 3 |
| DK Denmark | — | 27 | 1 in 217K | 40 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | — | 3 | 1 in 117K | 3 | — | — |
| SG Singapore | #791 | — | — | — | Rong | 74 |
3,975 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; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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)
Rong 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 German, Occupational or nickname surname from the Rung(e)/Rong(e) group; bearer count 97.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
, ¢ ‘Martial’. This is the name of Zhang Rong (Jung Chang; b. 1952), author of Wild Swans. Before 1949, it was almost exclusively a male name.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Marcial
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Luxembourgish, stanchion, post, stake
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)
- Chen Rongb. 1200CNChinese painter from the Song Dynasty (1200-1266)
- Xiang Rongb. 1801CNQing Dynasty politician
- Li Rongb. 1920CNChinese linguist
- Zhao Lirongb. 1928CNnot in their usual nameChinese actress (1928–2000)
- Deng Rongb. 1950CNdaughter of Deng Xiaoping
- Duan Rongb. 1972CNChinese Go player
- Tammy Chenb. 1979TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese actress
- Yang Rongb. 1981CNChinese actress (1981-)
- Wang Rongb. 1984CNbadminton player
- Bo Rongb. 1985CNbadminton player
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 51 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.3K | #12,671 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.4K | #18,910 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 911 | #25,484 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 108 | #59,814 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 59 | #27,698 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 52 | #43,780 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 52 | #43,157 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 40 | #13,062 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
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 Rong mean?
- In English, Misspelling of wrong.
- Where does the name Rong come from?
- Occupational or nickname surname from the Rung(e)/Rong(e) group; bearer count 97. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen.
- Is Rong a male or female name?
- Rong is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Rong have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.0 thousand people named Rong, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rong.
- Where is Rong most common?
- Rong is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 84 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Rong?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,975 people named Rong in 2020, about 1 in 84 thousand residents.
- How common is Rong compared with other names?
- In Singapore, Rong is the 791st most common given name of 52,448 given names 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, “Rong” — the 791st most common given name in Singapore. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.