Given name & surname
Wing
“woman of glory”
Wing is used as a given name and a surname. One Chinese interpretation is “woman of glory.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Chinese interpretation is “woman of glory.”
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 1881. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Wing through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 188
- 166 boys · 22 girls
- Most popular year
- 1984
- 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 girls is 5 in 1996. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 7 in 1984. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 3,560 as a first name in 2020; 11,951 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.
Wing’s family of names
Wing has a related form in Winge. Wing has a related form in Wyng.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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