Kong: Name Meaning, Popularity and Info on BabyNames.com (2024)

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The name Kong is primarily a male name of Chinese origin that means Bright.

空 [Kong] Meaning: empty, air, sky, in vain, to empty, vacant, unoccupied, space, leisure, free time. Dialects : Mandarin. Explore 空 Kong meaning & origins.

Origin: Kong is a boy's name.

Kong (Chinese: 孔; Korean: 공) is a Chinese and Korean surname. It can also be written as Kong in Taiwan, Hung in Hong Kong, Khổng in Vietnam, and Gong in Korea. There are around 2.1 million people with this surname in China in 2002, representing 0.23% of the population.

Hokkien. For pronunciation and definitions of kong – see 光 (“light; beam; ray; glory; pride; etc.”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 光).

The word "Kong" is a Japanese slang word for "gorilla".

In the Korean language, kong means soybean and guksu means noodles. It comprises noodles made with wheat flour and soup made from ground soybeans.

Cooper was fascinated by Burden's adventures as chronicled in his book Dragon Lizards of Komodo where he referred to the animal as the "King of Komodo". It was this phrase along with "Komodo" and "Kongo" [sic] (and his overall love for hard sounding "K"-words) that gave him the idea to name the giant ape "Kong".

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Kong's backstory is elaborated upon in the 2005 novel Kong: King of Skull Island. According to this novel, Kong is the last surviving member of a species of huge apes known as kongs that once were numerous on Skull Island.

Lady Kong is a female giant ape and the mate of King Kong in the 1986 film King Kong Lives.

Baby Girl Name: Bithiah. Meaning: Daughter of God. Origin: Hebrew.

This year's top three baby girl names are a repeat of last year's, with Olivia, Emma, and Amelia hanging on to spots one, two, and three.

One claimed the wall on Skull Island symbolized "Wall Street"; Kong's fall from the Empire State Building was the "Stock Market Crash of 1929." Another saw Kong's capture as symbolizing the capture of black slaves, his suffering the suffering of all black Americans.

In the original film, the character's name is Kong, a name given to him by the inhabitants of the fictional "Skull Island" in the Indian Ocean, where Kong lives along with other oversized animals, such as plesiosaurs, pterosaurs and various dinosaurs.