Jong — boys' name

What the Data Says About Jong

The Social Security Administration has registered 74 babies named Jong between 1939 and 1994, spanning 56 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Jong currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1994. The name reached its historical peak in 1988, when 7 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jong performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 30 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Jong shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Kansas, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Jong in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jong 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 74 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.