Thông
given name · Latin script
Meaning: pine (tree of the genus Pinus)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Thông is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 108K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 189K
- FIFinland1 in 464K
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
- 104 (measured from records)
- 1 in 108K (inferred from the name graph)
3,087 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Thong in US United States, NL Netherlands.
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)
pine (tree of the genus Pinus)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Thông 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 | 3,087 | 1 in 108K | 2.8K | Thong | 104 |
| SE Sweden | 54 | 1 in 189K | 54 | — | 6 |
| NL Netherlands | 14 | 1 in 1.2M | 36 | Thong | 7 |
| FI Finland | 12 | 1 in 464K | 57 | — | 4 |
| DK Denmark | 12 | 1 in 489K | 9 | — | 1 |
3,087 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); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Thông 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 Vietnamese, Pine
as a nameVietnamese Personal Names (CIA Foreign Names Studies, ch. 37)
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)
- Li Tongb. 168CNnot in their usual nameChinese general serving warlord Cao Cao (168-209)
- Wang Tongb. 573not in their usual nameSui dynasty person CBDB = 138818
- Wang Tongb. 584not in their usual nameChinese philosopher and politician (584–617)
- Han Tongb. 908CNnot in their usual nameLater Zhou general
- Luo Tongb. 1389not in their usual nameMing dynasty politician, 1389-1469
- Zhao Tongb. 1424not in their usual namepolitician
- Zhou Tongb. 1990CNnot in their usual namefootballer
- Yang Tongb. 2000CNnot in their usual nameChinese para-badminton player
- Wang Tongnot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 66788
- Li Tongnot in their usual namepolitician
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)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Thông mean, and where does it come from?
- pine (tree of the genus Pinus) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Thông a male or female name?
- Thông 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 Thông have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.1 thousand people named Thông, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled thong.
- Where is Thông most common?
- Thông is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 108 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Thông?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,087 people named Thông in 2020, about 1 in 108 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/th%C3%B4ngThe 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, “Thông”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.