Bong (surname)

Bong is a surname in various cultures.
Origins.
Bong may be a spelling of a number of Chinese surnames based on their pronunciation in different varieties of Chinese. They are listed below by their Mandarin Pinyin spelling:
Bong is the Revised Romanization of Korean spelling of a Korean surname originally written using either of two hanja. These surnames are also spelled Pong in North Korea's modified McCune–Reischauer romanization system, and are both used as Chinese surnames as well, pronounced Fèng in Mandarin.
Bong may also be a Belgian surname of unclear origin, a Swedish surname originating from the word meaning "noise", and a Tibetan clan name. 
Statistics.
The 2000 South Korean census found 11,819 people in 3,629 households with the surnames spelled Bong in the Revised Romanization of Korean, divided among 11,492 people in 3,528 households for , and 327 people in 101 households for . Statistics compiled by Patrick Hanks on the basis of the 2011 United Kingdom census and the Census of Ireland 2011 found 53 people with the surname Bong on the island of Great Britain and one on the island of Ireland. In the 1881 United Kingdom census there were five bearers of the surname. The 2010 United States census found 1,208 people with the surname Bong, making it the 21,599th-most-common surname in the country. This represented an increase from 1,051 people (22,783rd-most-common) in the 2000 census. In the 2010 census, roughly 44% of the bearers of the surname identified as Asian (up from 36% in the 2000 census), and 50% as non-Hispanic white (down from 58% in the 2000 census).
People.
Other.
People with the surname Bong other than those listed in the sections above include: