Given name & surname
Ying
Ying is a surname from Mandarin, ultimately from Chinese.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Ying comes from Mandarin, and ultimately from Chinese.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1980. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ying through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 400
- 140 boys · 260 girls
- Most popular year
- 1989
- 25 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 6 in 2009. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 16 in 1992. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 15,166 as a first name in 2020; 2,653 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.
Ying’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 7
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Ying
- Chen YingChinese sport shooterborn 1977
- Lung Ying-taiTaiwanese writer, politicianborn 1952
- Ying ChenCanadian writerborn 1961
- Xiahou YingHan dynasty politician250 BC–171 BC
- Luo YingChinese badminton playerborn 1991
- Wang Yingsoftball playerborn 1968
- Chen YingChinese badminton playerborn 1971
- Guan Yinghan dynasty general and official (died 176 BCE)
- Zhang YingChinese judokaborn 1970
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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