girls:
5 births since 1983
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
301 births since 1900
#4285 (7th percentile)
overall:
306 births since 1900
#7433 (4th percentile)
The name Fong is the #7,433 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 306 recorded births since 1900. This represents the 3.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,285 (6.5% percentile) for all time with 301 births since 1900. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1983.
Fong first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1900 (1900 for boys and 1983 for girls). Birth data for Fong is available in 22 out of the 102 years between 1900 and 2001 (22 years for boys and 1 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Fong has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Fong reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 2.9% percentile (ranked #735) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1900, with 37 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2001.
For girls, Fong reached its peak popularity in 1983, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #775) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1983, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1983.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Fong".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Fong. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 57.1% confident that Fong is pronounced as fawng, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is fahng, at 28.6% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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