Entry № 4340 · Chinese origin

Hong Hong — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ HOHNG /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Chinese
Meaning
"Red, rainbow, swan"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Ancient (Chinese)

A name that means "red, rainbow, swan".

Hong (紅) is the Mandarin Chinese word for "red" — the color of joy, luck, and weddings in Chinese tradition. Also 鴻 (great swan, vast) or 虹 (rainbow).

Hong is widely used in China. Lady Hong (1735-1816) was the Korean Crown Princess who wrote the major memoir The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyeong.

Red. The Chinese color of joy.

The name in its native script.

Transliteration
Hóng
Pronunciation
/ hɒŋ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Hong stands.

Hong does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Hongs before her.

Real people
Lady Hong
Korean Crown Princess memoirist.
1735 – 1816
In fiction
Hong
Common in Chinese fiction.

Names connected to Hong.

The number behind Hong.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Hong reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.