> Can the surname Tong itself signify any sort of association? Not really. Members of a 堂 (Mandarin Pinyin: táng, Cantonese Jyutping: tong⁴) might be of the sa

> Can the surname Tong itself signify any sort of association? Not really. Members of a 堂 (Mandarin Pinyin: táng, Cantonese Jyutping: tong⁴) might be of the same family and share a surname, but it would be rather unlikely for that surname to be 堂 as well. There's another surname with the same pronunciation — 唐 — which is more common and might actually be Winston Tong's surname. Of course he could have left that ambiguous in an oral conversation.