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Jong

Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Jeong

Jong has been given to 74 babies in the U.S. since 1939. 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 1988, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Jong, 1994

1 in 743,000

Jong 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jong: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Jeong

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jong means

Jong is a alternate transcription of Jeong.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Jong is used in Korean.

Another recorded pronunciation is /t͡ɕʌŋ/ for Jong.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jeong.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 74 boys were recorded with the name Jong between 1939 and 1994. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1988; its best national rank was #3,732 in 1939.

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 Jong?

Jong had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1994, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1994
1 in 743,000
5 of 3,715,972 births
Among boys only
1 in 386,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1994
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
515,144 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jong 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 1994 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 515,144 children born in 1994 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jong. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jongs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jong was born before 1982 — so the typical Jong is around 43 today.

Median birth year
1982
About 43 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
40.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
71.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
69
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 40.5% of all recorded uses (30).

Is Jong 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1988 (7)
Years since peak
37
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,732
1939

Spellings of Jong

Jong is not the most common spelling — John is, with 67.6% against Jong's <0.01%.

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 Jong is used

Across 1910–2025, Jong was most concentrated in Kansas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 372,146 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Kansas1 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. Jong has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jong around the world

Where Jong 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.

  • Canada
    1991–1992
    #1,744
    in 1992
  • South Australia
    1994–1994
    #531
    in 1994

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Jong 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
#3,732
1939
Peak year
1988
7 that year
First recorded
1939
Last recorded
1994
All-time count
74
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jong

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

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Sibling names for Jong

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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