Given name & surname
Ping
“one who is peaceful”
Ping is used as a given name and a surname. One Chinese interpretation is “one who is peaceful.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Chinese interpretation is “one who is peaceful.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Chinese.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1976. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ping through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 16
- 6 boys · 10 girls
- Most popular year
- 1991
- 6 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 girls is 5 in 1994. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 7,428 as a first name in 2020; 2,624 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.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 10
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Phinequivalent
- Bingequivalent
- Phengequivalent
- Pengequivalent
- Byeongequivalent
- Pinequivalent
- 平equivalent
- 丙equivalent
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People named Ping
- Zhang PingChinese volleyball playerborn 1982
- Peng PingChinese basketball player (born 1967)
- Li Pingweightlifterborn 1988
- Ping WuAmerican actorborn 1956
- Liu PingChinese water polo playerborn 1987
- Ge PingChinese high jumperborn 1961
- Zhou PingChinese gymnastborn 1968
- Liu PingChinese human rights activistborn 1964
- Tsui PingHong Kong female singerborn 1938
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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