Sarong
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A garment made of a length of printed cloth wrapped about the waist that is commonly worn by men and women in South and Southeast Asia, also in the Pacific islands
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/səɹɑŋ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sarong is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 44K(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 1.1M
- DKDenmark1 in 1.5M
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 29 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 44K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,500 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
A garment made of a length of printed cloth wrapped about the waist that is commonly worn by men and women in South and Southeast Asia, also in the Pacific islands.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sarong 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Sarong | 29 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Sarong | 6 |
| US United States | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 25M | listed | Sarong | 20 |
| CA Canada | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 6.8M | — | Sarong | 6 |
| DK Denmark | 4 | 1 in 1.5M | 4 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 2 | 1 in 5.9M | 2 | — | 1 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Sarong 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 kyj, blanket worn by women in traditional dancing
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mqs, a sheath, covering
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In grt, small waterpot
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, SARÓNG, saronguri, s. n. Îmbrăcăminte malaieză de forma unei fuste lungi și strâmte, purtată de bărbați și de femei.
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 4 | #72,091 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 2 | #149,011 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Sarong mean, and where does it come from?
- A garment made of a length of printed cloth wrapped about the waist that is commonly worn by men and women in South and Southeast Asia, also in the Pacific islands. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Sarong?
- A machine transcription gives /səɹɑŋ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Sarong have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.5 thousand people named Sarong in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sarong.
- How common is the name Sarong?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 4 people named Sarong, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sarongThe 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, “Sarong”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.