The HONG surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	24,017	1352	0.009	89
United States (1880 census)	475	10084	0.001	10
Change since 1880	+23542	+8732	+0.008	+79
Other Countries
Australia	1,276	1299	0.008	78
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for HONG by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	9,201	339	0.027	272
New York	2,106	824	0.011	111
New Jersey	1,455	548	0.017	173
Washington	1,151	586	0.020	195
Texas	1,095	2213	0.005	53
Top States for HONG by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Hawaii	387	180	0.032	319
California	9,201	339	0.027	272
Washington	1,151	586	0.020	195
New Jersey	1,455	548	0.017	173
Maryland	762	784	0.014	144

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called HONG live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called HONG represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called HONG in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a HONG by picking someone at random in Hawaii than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of HONG

Region of origin: Asia

Country of origin: Vietnam

Language of origin: Vietnamese

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the HONG surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of HONG in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	624	2.6
Black/African American	245	1.02
White (Hispanic)	216	0.9
Native American/Alaskan	41	0.17
Asian/Pacific	21,147	88.05
White (Caucasian)	1,744	7.26

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the HONG surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to HONG

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HONG.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.