Tong is a first name for boys.
Recently, the name Tong has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one boy in 100,000 has been named Tong. That means that a boy named Tong is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Tong.
The first name Tong is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 144 Americans in total bear this name. And these 144 men are located in only three states: California, Minnesota and Wisconsin (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 men with this name in the state. So, if your name is Tong and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Tong in relation to it’s male population is Minnesota. And yet even there, only one in 95,304 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Tong present.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter T is a particularly popular initial letter for boys’ names. That’s because 6.3% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J, A and D.
With four letters, the name Tong is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
With 6.3% of all boys' names that begin with the letter T, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. And Thomas is the boys’ name starting with T, which is the most common of all.
If your name is Tong and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Tong, you can simply say:
Tiger
Orange
Nut
Goat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Tong
Tong
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
T
O
N
G
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
T
O
N
G
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Tong sounds like this:
