Ing

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Ing is a name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It is written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Apparently borrowed from Old Norse eng or possibly inherited directly from Proto-Germanic *angijō.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 186K◐
  • NLNetherlands1 in 293K
  • GYGuyana1 in 750K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈285 ●

across 7 countries

Sources
223 ●

29K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 186K ◐

Sweden

Spellings & scripts●

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled -Ing in DE Germany.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Derivation of Ing: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Ing
  1. Old Norseeng●
  2. Proto-Germanic*angijō●

Apparently borrowed from Old Norse eng or possibly inherited directly from Proto-Germanic *angijō.

Sources 7

  • A dictionary of surnames
  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Ing is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States12717K rec.1 in 2.6M1.8K—223
DE Germany83780 rec.——-Ing51
NL Netherlands59338 rec.1 in 293K59—22
SE Sweden55△16 rec.1 in 186K55—8
BR Brazil390 rec.1 in 5.4M65—2
DK Denmark3—1 in 2M3——
GY Guyana10 rec.1 in 750K1—1
CR Costa Rica10 rec.1 in 5.1M1—1
FR France—3 rec.—33—2
NO Norway—1 rec.—14—2
FI Finland—7 rec.—10—1
CH Switzerland—12 rec.—9—7

Roughly 127 people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 2.6M). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Other names spelled this way◐

Ing is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name11K records spelled Ing5 spellings in the group

    Also written Ïng, Inğ, Íng

  • a separate name2.0K records spelled Ing2 spellings in the group
  • a separate name1.7K records spelled Ing3 spellings in the group

    Also written Įng

66 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

051015202000200520102015202017 · 1999

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Ing in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
199917
200017
200117
200217
200317
200417
200516
200616
200716
200815
200915
201015
201114
201212
201311
201411
201511
201611
201712
201812
201912
202012

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

12001400160018002000Guo Ying, b. 1335Mu Ying, b. 1345Qiu Ying, b. 1494Ying Tsiang, b. 1898Paul Tan Chee Ing, b. 1940Ing-Marie Carlsson, b. 1957Ying Huang, b. 1968Peter Ing, b. 1969
  • Guo Yingb. 1335not in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 66252
  • Mu Yingb. 1345CNnot in their usual nameChinese general
  • Qiu Yingb. 1494CNnot in their usual nameChinese painter (1494–1552)
  • Ying Tsiangb. 1898CNnot in their usual nameChinese botanist (1898–1982)
  • Paul Tan Chee Ingb. 1940MYMalaysian bishop
  • Ing-Marie Carlssonb. 1957SESwedish actress
  • Ying Huangb. 1968CNnot in their usual nameChinese operatic soprano
  • Peter Ingb. 1969CACanadian ice hockey player
  • Pang Yingnot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 318421
  • Xu Yingnot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 318515

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 34 sources across 18 countries.

Official registers attesting Ing
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.8K#16,004
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.8K#15,671
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.6K#16,391
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020127#39,915
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—65#86,981
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—62#30,404
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202061#39,915
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—59#7,620
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—55#12,743
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198144—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202239—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—37#78,870

Reference works 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 66 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ing?
We estimate roughly 285 people bear Ing (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Ing have the most bearers?
We estimate about 127 people bear Ing in the United States, more than in any other country in our records.
Where is Ing most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ing is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 186 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
What does the name Ing mean?
Recorded meaning: Apparently borrowed from Old Norse eng or possibly inherited directly from Proto-Germanic *angijō.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ing”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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