Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1925. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Hing through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1925
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
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- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1925. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 669 as a first name in 2020; 1,503 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.
Hing’s family of names
In Filipino usage, Hing as a surname has a related form in Heng.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
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 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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