Chong
Chong is a boy's name that peaked in 1989, when it was the 2,615th most popular in the United States. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 2004. About 510 Chongs are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 38.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Chong boys named Chong
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 562
- Estimated living today
- 510
- Median age today
- 38
- Peak year
- 1989
- Best rank
- 2,615th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1926
- Girls / boys
- 226 / 336
How old the living Chongs are
born that year still alive today
Of the 562 babies given the name since 1926, about 510 are alive — 92 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1987 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Chongs
- He Chong (born 1987)Chinese diver
- Ye Chong (born 1969)Chinese fencer
- Cao Chong (196–208)Chinese warlord Cao Cao's son
- Man Chong (209–242)Cao Wei general and official
- Chong Yong-de (born 1978)South Korean association football player
- Chŏng Ku (1543–1620)Korean Joseon dynasty politician and educator, poet
People named Chong with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Chong is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Chong is most concentrated in Kansas (34.7×), Minnesota (6.6×), California (4.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1989
The most popular boys’ names the year Chong peaked:
Chong among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Chong | — | 8 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Chong against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.