The surname Kwong
A Chinese surname, carried by 5,637 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex K520
Origin
Chinese origin
Borrowed from Cantonese 鄺／邝 (kwong3).
One of 193 Chinese surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 5,637 people named Kwong in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 54,771 Americans. That is up 12% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,037.
Who is named Kwong
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
95% of people named Kwong identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, 2.3% as two or more races and 1.9% as white (not Hispanic).
- Asian and Pacific Islander 95%
- Two or more races 2.3%
- White (not Hispanic) 1.9%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.8%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.1%
Compare: most common surnames among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.
Famous Kwongs
1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first
- Hiram FongAmerican politician (1906–2004)
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Kwong has the Soundex code K520, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K520.
Other Chinese surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Kwong come from?
- Borrowed from Cantonese 鄺／邝 (kwong3).
- How common is the surname Kwong?
- 5,637 people in the United States had the surname Kwong in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 54,771 Americans. It ranked 6,084th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Kwong?
- In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Kwong identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, and 2.3% as two or more races.
- Who is the most famous person named Kwong?
- Hiram Fong, American politician (1906–2004).
- Where is the surname Kwong most common?
- Wikidata records people named Kwong in the United States.
- Is the surname Kwong getting more or less common?
- More common. 5,037 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,637 in 2010, up 12%.