Given name & surname
Ting
“graceful and slim woman”
Ting is used as a given name and a surname. One Chinese interpretation is “graceful and slim woman.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Chinese interpretation is “graceful and slim woman.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Chinese.
How it developed
From Hokkien 丁 (teng), from Eastern Min 陳 (dìng).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1984. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ting through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 89
- 15 boys · 74 girls
- Most popular year
- 2001
- 12 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 2006. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 4,037 as a first name in 2020; 3,906 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.
Ting’s family of names
In Indonesian usage, Ting as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with Teng. In English usage, Ting as a surname has a related form in DING. In English usage, Ting as a surname has a related form in DING.
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 2
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 Ting
- Ting Chenformer chair of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trusteesborn 1968
- Chang TingTaiwanese actressborn 1970
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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