Tjong
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Tjong is a surname, most frequently recorded in the United States. It appears chiefly in English and Indonesian, written in the Latin script.
- USUnited States1 in 1.5M◐
- IDIndonesia1 in 15K
- NLNetherlands1 in 112K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
| Country | Share of this name | |
|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,769 | 42% |
| ID Indonesia | 934 | 22% |
| AU Australia | 455 | 11% |
| NL Netherlands | 259 | 6% |
| CA Canada | 140 | 3% |
≈3,557 recorded bearers across the countries shown (a sample of the full distribution).
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Languages●
- English2.4K56%
- Indonesian1.1K27%
- Dutch2035%
- Norwegian Bokmål982%
- Chinese812%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 2,361 | 56% |
| Indonesian | 1,110 | 27% |
| Dutch | 203 | 5% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 98 | 2% |
| Chinese | 81 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Alex Tjongb. 1991BRbadminton player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 14 sources across 7 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-03 data build · 15 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Tjong?
- Our records include 3,557 bearers of Tjong across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
- In which country does Tjong have the most bearers?
- Tjong is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Tjong”. Data snapshot 2026-08-31.