Hong
A Chinese name carrying senses like "rainbow," "red," and "great." In Poland it stays rare, one most people will never come across, and it splits almost evenly between women and men.
Hong Pronunciation
Hong is pronounced KHONK (/xɔnk/).
What Hong means
Where Hong comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Hong comes from Chinese, and it rides on more than one written character. As 红 it means red. The same sound, written 虹, is the rainbow after rain, and written 宏 it means great or vast. The letters on a Polish page stay put. The meaning depends on which character a family has in mind.
On Polish name lists the sense attached to Hong is hojność and gościnność, generosity and a welcome for guests. That reading came later, layered onto the older Chinese senses of red and rainbow. It is a warm gloss for a short name.
In a Polish class register Hong takes up little room, four letters between longer surnames. No diminutive, no variant. The name stands as it is, with the red, the rainbow, and the great behind it.
How many people are named Hong
1 in 300584 women in Poland is named Hong. 135 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2846 among female names.
Hong as a middle name
Hong is a first name for 135 women in Poland and a middle name for another 33, an 80/20 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1216th, between Ha (33) and Kathy (33).
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#1214 Emmanuelle33
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#1215 Ha33
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#1216 Hong33
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#1217 Kathy33
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#1218 Marcella33