Hong — unisex name

What the Data Says About Hong

The Social Security Administration has registered 450 babies named Hong between 1976 and 2001, spanning 26 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Hong currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2001. The name reached its historical peak in 1982, when 46 babies received it in a single year. Hong is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 198 additional births since 1923.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Hong performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 267 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Hong shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 105 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Louisiana. In total, SSA state-level files list Hong in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Hong in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 450 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.