The Ong surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 9,584 people carried this name — #3,704 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 30,800 people counted. That is up 27% from 7,572 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Ong surname
A Chinese surname from Hokkien.
From Hokkien 王 (Ông) or 汪 (Ong).
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Ong» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
82 people named Ong live in Switzerland.
They live in 8 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 74 people named Ong.
Most of them — 68 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 2 départements, most often Paris.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
74 people named Ong is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
In print
Ong in American newspapers,
1923–1927.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 351,246 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Ong,
with a public archive behind them.
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William Armitage Ong 1902–1979 -
Ong Poh Lim 1921–2003 · badminton player -
Ong Teng Cheong 1936–2002 · architect -
Jack Ong 1940–2017 · actor -
Betty Ong 1956–2001 · flight attendant
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 95 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Ong.
- Oltz 237 · U.S. census
- Omar 7,660 · U.S. census
- Omari 595 · U.S. census
- Omer 2,063 · U.S. census
- Oms 164 · U.S. census
- Ona 584 · U.S. census
- Ongaro 262 · U.S. census
- Onorato 1,913 · U.S. census
- Opfermann 110 · U.S. census
- Oppenheim 1,795 · U.S. census
- Oppermann 727 · U.S. census
- Orabona 195 · U.S. census
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