Given name & surname · also Old English
Bing
Bing is a masculine given name from Old English.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
In English usage, Bing is a diminutive of BINGHAM. In English usage, Bing is a diminutive of BINGLEY.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1924. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Bing through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 356
- 356 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1938
- 17 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2008. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 17 in 1938. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 3,991 as a first name in 2020; 3,721 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Bing’s family of names
In English usage, Bing is a diminutive of BINGHAM. In English usage, Bing is a diminutive of BINGLEY.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 7
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Bing
- Wang BingChinese film directorborn 1967
- Bing RussellAmerican actor and baseball club owner (1926–2003)
- Xu BingChinese artist (born 1955)
- Bing SlametIndonesian actor and comedian (1927-1974)
- Li BingChinese footballerborn 1969
- Bing Loyzagaactressborn 1970
- Bing ThomCanadian architect1940–2016
- Li Bingofficial of Northern Zhou (Chinese Northern dynasties period); father of Emperor Gaozu of Tang550–573
- Bing MillerAmerican baseball player and coach1894–1966
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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