Tong
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Tong has been given to 309 babies in the U.S. since 1946. 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 1993, with 22 recorded.
Babies named Tong, 2019
1 in 694,000
Tong over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Tong?
Tong had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2019
- 1 in 694,000
- 5 of 3,472,229 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 359,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2019
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 481,354 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Tong sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 481,354 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tong. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Tongs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Tong was born before 1990 — so the typical Tong is around 35 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 47.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 18.1%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 304
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 47.6% of all recorded uses (147).
Is Tong 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 1993 (22)
- Years since peak
- 32
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 25.6% average annual change
Spellings of Tong
Tong is not the most common spelling — Todd is, with 23.0% against Tong's 0.03%.
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 Tong is used
Across 1910–2025, Tong was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 167,284 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 100,000
- 2Minnesota1 in 100,000
- 3Wisconsin1 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. Tong has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Tong around the world
Where Tong 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.
- France1981–1981#1,988in 1981
- South Australia2009–2009#473in 2009
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Tong by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Tong
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Tong
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.