Hong

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Hong: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Hong: Recorded since 1952, it reached #360 in 1959, and it was last ranked in 2013.

2registrars recorded it
41times a registrar ranked it
62years from first to last
#360highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2005–2011

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2005	#3970
2008	#5545
2010	#5707
2011	#5785

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 27 of the 42 years from 1952 to 1993.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1952–2013 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1952
First recorded at #412 among girls in Norway in 1952 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1952–1993
Highest recorded position: #360 among girls in Norway, in 1959 (recorded 1952–1993).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2013
Most recently recorded at #3315 among boys in England and Wales, in 2013.
England and Wales · Boys

Hong appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 27 years beginning in 1952, and has registered 163 births with the name.

Hong across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Hong's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Girls	#412 (1952)	#360 (1959)	#636 (1993)	27 of 42	163 (1952–1993)	11 (1982)
England and Wales · Boys	#2501 (2000)	#2501 (2000)	#3315 (2013)	10 of 14	46 (2000–2013)	7 (2010)
England and Wales · Girls	#3970 (2005)	#3970 (2005)	#5785 (2011)	4 of 7	13 (2005–2011)	4 (2005)

Hong by decade in Norway · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Hong in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1950s	16	3 of 10	5
1960s	31	6 of 10	5
1970sbusiest	53	8 of 10	7
1980s	54	8 of 10	7
1990s	9	2 of 10	5

Across Norway · Girls, the 1970s were its busiest decade — the 8 years of it this list covers, averaging 7 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Hong appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1952 to 2013. Highest recorded position: #360 in Norway in 1959.

Hong's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2013	England and Wales	male	#3315	5	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#4805	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#4647	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#5707	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2629	7	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#3227	5	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#5545	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#2775	6	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#3095	5	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2870	5	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3970	4	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3651	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#2501	4	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#636	4	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#603	5	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#666	4	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#553	6	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#561	6	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#552	6	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#589	5	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#366	11	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#488	7	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#409	9	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#517	6	High	Verified
1978	Norway	female	#506	6	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#554	5	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#398	9	High	Verified
1973	Norway	female	#488	6	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#472	7	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#447	7	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#446	7	High	Verified
1969	Norway	female	#447	6	High	Verified
1968	Norway	female	#544	4	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#510	5	High	Verified
1965	Norway	female	#496	5	High	Verified
1962	Norway	female	#407	6	High	Verified
1960	Norway	female	#436	5	High	Verified
1959	Norway	female	#360	7	High	Verified
1958	Norway	female	#414	5	High	Verified
1952	Norway	female	#412	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1952 and 2013, ranked in 38 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #360, first reached in 1959.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 11 births, registered in Norway in 1982.

Its record falls into 11 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 6 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2000, and 48 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Honora · #251, 20y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Leone · #363, 37y
Rosalyn · #363, 33y
Milos · #356, 37y
Marcia · #354, 36y

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1950 and 1959.

Mariana · #359, 59y
Bushra · #363, 54y
Farhad · #364, 47y
Abbas · #365, 55y

Hong was ranked #360 in Norway · Girls in 1959. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Hong and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Hong without appearing here.

Hong moved ahead of

Erin Compare
In 2012 they stood at #4805 and #4805 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2013 that had become #3315 and #4685.
Hans Compare
In 2012 they stood at #4805 and #3987 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2013 that had become #3315 and #4685.
Tayla Compare
In 2012 they stood at #3227 and #2318 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2013 that had become #3315 and #4685.
Shannon Compare
In 2005 they stood at #3651 and #2304 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #2870 and #4052.

Moved ahead of Hong

Henrik Compare
In 2010 they stood at #2629 and #3332 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2011 that had become #4647 and #2194.
Morten Compare
In 2010 they stood at #2629 and #3865 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2011 that had become #4647 and #2390.
Isak Compare
In 2010 they stood at #2629 and #2941 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2011 that had become #4647 and #2613.
Aksel Compare
In 2010 they stood at #2629 and #3332 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2011 that had become #4647 and #2892.

Moved the opposite way to Hong

Alexandra Compare
Between 1952 and 1993 in Norway · Girls, Hong went from #412 to #636 while Alexandra went from #400 to #129.
Andrea Compare
Between 1952 and 1993 in Norway · Girls, Hong went from #412 to #636 while Andrea went from #401 to #20.
Anette Compare
Between 1952 and 1993 in Norway · Girls, Hong went from #412 to #636 while Anette went from #218 to #36.
Anna Compare
Between 1952 and 1993 in Norway · Girls, Hong went from #412 to #636 while Anna went from #62 to #15.

Moved the same way as Hong

Ann Compare
Between 1952 and 1993 in Norway · Girls, Hong went from #412 to #636 and Ann from #47 to #81.
Anne Compare
Between 1952 and 1993 in Norway · Girls, Hong went from #412 to #636 and Anne from #1 to #22.
Annie Compare
Between 1952 and 1993 in Norway · Girls, Hong went from #412 to #636 and Annie from #168 to #277.
Åse Compare
Between 1952 and 1993 in Norway · Girls, Hong went from #412 to #636 and Åse from #31 to #239.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1952 to 2013. Highest recorded position: #360 in Norway in 1959. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Hong

Hong at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Hong across 3 official records

Hong by decade in Norway · Girls

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Hong across 3 official records

Hong by decade in Norway · Girls

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