Bong Family History

Americanized form of Swedish Bång: soldier's name from bång ‘noise’. Compare Bang. German (North Rhine-Westphalia): unexplained.

Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 王 possibly based on its pronunciation of Hakka Chinese dialects, a form commonly found in Southeast Asian countries such as Malaysia and Indonesia; see Wang.

Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 黃 possibly based on its pronunciation of Hakka Chinese dialects, a form commonly found in Southeast Asian countries such as Malaysia and Indonesia; see Huang.

Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 溫; see Wen. Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 蒙, possibly based on its Hokkien pronunciation; see Meng.

Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 彭; see Peng. Chinese: possibly from Cantonese form of the Chinese name 邦 (meaning ‘state’), a monosyllabic personal name or part of a disyllabic personal name of some early Chinese immigrants in the US.