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Blong

Boys' name

Leaf

Blong has been given to 255 babies in the U.S. since 1981. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1990, with 30 recorded.

Babies named Blong, 1998

1 in 409,000

Blong over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Blong: meaning, origin, and history

Leaf

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Blong means

Blong means “leaf”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Blong is used in Hmong.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 255 boys were recorded with the name Blong between 1981 and 1998. Its highest annual count was 30 in 1990; its best national rank was #2,315 in 1990.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Blong?

Blong had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1998, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1998
1 in 409,000
9 of 3,677,189 births
Among boys only
1 in 212,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1998
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
283,205 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Blong sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1998 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 283,205 children born in 1998 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Blong. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Blongs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Blong was born before 1990 — so the typical Blong is around 35 today.

Median birth year
1990
About 35 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
54.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
255
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 54.5% of all recorded uses (139).

Is Blong rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1990 (30)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,315
1990

Spellings of Blong

Blong is not the most common spelling — Lon is, with 29.7% against Blong's 0.77%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Blong is used

Across 1910–2025, Blong was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 205,888 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 100,000
  2. 2Wisconsin1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Blong has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Blong around the world

Where Blong ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1982–1982
    #2,978
    in 1982

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Blong by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,315
1990
Peak year
1990
30 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
1998
All-time count
255
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Blong

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

PhongThongChongVuongXiongDuongCuongTruongPhuongFongYongTongDongHongWongTrongVongLongZongMongChuongSongJongBloom

Sibling names for Blong

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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