Chong (surname)
As a surname, Chong may refer to:
Hakka romanizations of the Chinese surnames Zhang (trad. 張, simp. 张), Zhang (章) and Zhuang (t 莊, s 庄)
Cantonese and Gan romanizations of the Chinese surnames Zhang (trad. 張, simp. 张) and Zhang (章)
a variant Minnan romanization of the Chinese surname Zheng (t 鄭, s 郑)
a Cantonese romanization of the Chinese surnames Zhong (t 鍾, s 钟) and Zhong (崇)
Cantonese and Gan romanizations of the Chinese surname Zhuang (t 莊, s 庄)
the McCune romanization of the Korean surname Chung (정)
Chong is the 19th-most-common surname among Chinese Singaporeans, with 23,100 bearers in the year 2000. There were 10,740 Chongs found by the year 2000 US Census, ranking Chong 2,561st most common overall and 96th most common among Asians and Pacific Islanders. Chong was also listed among the 200-most-common peculiarly Chinese surnames in a 2010 survey of the Registered Persons Database of Canadian health card recipients in the province of Ontario.
List of persons with the surname
