Chong
Recorded 1926–2004 · United States
Chong was most popular in 1991, when 35 American babies were given the name — ranking #5,099 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 562 people named Chong.
Chong over time
How old is the name Chong?
Chong first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1926, which makes it about 99 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 42 of the 100 years since. It was last recorded in 2004.
How many people are named Chong?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 562 American births named Chong between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 516 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Chong in 2025?
Chong was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Chong a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Chong is a unisex name — 40.2% of the 562 Americans given it were girls and 59.8% were boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Chong?
Roughly 516 Americans named Chong are alive today — 92% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 39 years old, and half are between 34 and 45. That is a narrow band: Chong arrived and faded within about a decade rather than staying in steady use.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Chong is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org