Zong — boys' name

What the Data Says About Zong

The Social Security Administration has registered 95 babies named Zong between 1984 and 1999, spanning 16 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Zong currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1999. The name reached its historical peak in 1992, when 13 babies received it in a single year. Zong is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 22 additional births since 1985.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Zong performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 76 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Zong shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 20 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Zong in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Zong 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 95 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.