Wong
Wong was last recorded in 1994, when 5 babies were given it; 187 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Wong by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Wong?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,195, in 1994; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
12 babies in 1888, the peak
Wong peaked in 1888, when 12 boys were given it, #608 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 5 | #10,195 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 5 | #9,601 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 6 | #6,368 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 6 | #6,245 | under 0.01 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,521 | 0.01 |
| 1905 | 8 | #997 | 0.06 |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,126 | 0.05 |
| 1902 | 7 | #1,010 | 0.06 |
| 1901 | 11 | #682 | 0.10 |
| 1900 | 10 | #900 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1899 | 6 | #1,048 | 0.06 |
| 1896 | 8 | #898 | 0.07 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,239 | 0.04 |
| 1894 | 10 | #728 | 0.09 |
| 1893 | 6 | #1,029 | 0.05 |
| 1891 | 7 | #839 | 0.07 |
| 1890 | 8 | #810 | 0.07 |
| 1888 | 12 | #608 | 0.10 |
| 1887 | 6 | #917 | 0.06 |
| 1886 | 7 | #843 | 0.06 |
| 1885 | 7 | #833 | 0.06 |
| 1883 | 9 | #676 | 0.09 |
| 1882 | 9 | #689 | 0.08 |
| 1881 | 8 | #703 | 0.08 |
| 1880 | 10 | #638 | 0.09 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Wong a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Wong has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Wong: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Wong, and how old are they?
An estimated 21 Americans named Wong and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 436 people named Wong (144 women and girls, 292 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 21 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20.8 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).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Wong
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Wong and names like it
- Compare Wong and PinkBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1880sWong peaked in 1888.
- The top names of 1888The year the most babies were named Wong.
- Names starting with WMost given first.