Fong
Fong was last recorded in 2001, when 5 babies were given it; 306 Americans have been recorded with it between 1900 and 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Fong by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Fong?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,114, in 2001; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
27 babies in 1983, the peak
Fong peaked in 1983, when 27 babies were given it (22 boys, #2,299 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 5 | #11,114 | 2.6 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,475 | 3.1 |
| 1998 | 7 | #7,844 | 3.7 |
| 1997 | 8 | #6,815 | 4.2 |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,666 | 5.3 |
| 1995 | 18 | #3,593 | 9.5 |
| 1994 | 10 | #5,585 | 5.2 |
| 1993 | 13 | #4,529 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 15 | #3,980 | 7.5 |
| 1991 | 9 | #5,656 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 14 | #4,038 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 23 | #2,716 | 11.5 |
| 1988 | 19 | #2,882 | 9.9 |
| 1987 | 17 | #2,986 | 9.1 |
| 1986 | 19 | #2,713 | 10.3 |
| 1985 | 21 | #2,448 | 11.4 |
| 1984 | 13 | #3,335 | 7.2 |
| 1983 | 22 | #2,299 | 12.3 |
| 1982 | 16 | #2,884 | 8.8 |
| 1981 | 20 | #2,438 | 11.2 |
| 1980 | 10 | #3,935 | 5.6 |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,219 | 39.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Fong a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 306 Americans recorded as Fong, 2% are girls and 98% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Fong: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Fong, and how old are they?
An estimated 285 Americans named Fong and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 33 and 42. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,479 people named Fong (659 women and girls, 820 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 289 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5.1 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Fong born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 132 | not ranked | 3.3× |
| Minnesota | 5 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Fong is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Fong is most over-represented in California: since 1910 it was given 3.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Fong with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,322 babies since 1880, Fong is the second most given (23% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
More about Fong and names like it
- Compare Fong and PhongBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sFong peaked in 1983.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Fong since 1910.
- The top names of 1983The year the most babies were named Fong.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Fong alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with FMost given first.