Ling-Ling

given name · Chinese · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ling-Ling is a given name, most frequently recorded in China. It appears chiefly in Chinese and English, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • MYMalaysia1 in 35K◐
  • USUnited States1 in 339K
  • CNChina1 in 1.5M

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≈1.3K ●

across 5 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
131 ●

9.3K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 186K ◐

Spain

Spellings & scripts●

Ling-LingLatin · Chinese●5.4K records
ЛинглингCyrillic · Russian●2 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Lingling in US United States, CN China, ES Spain and 19 more and Ling Ling in MY Malaysia.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Ling-Ling is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—2,418652 rec.——Lingling77
MY Malaysia—1,859191 rec.—835Ling Ling21
US United States—9814.5K rec.1 in 339K981Lingling131
AU Australia—558518 rec.—1Lingling40
PH Philippines—5001.6K rec.——Lingling24
TW Taiwan—498142 rec.——Lingling25
HK Hong Kong#433407400 rec.——Lingling18
GB United Kingdom—301195 rec.——Lingling26
ES Spain—269△59 rec.1 in 186K269Lingling18
AR Argentina—20098 rec.—5Lingling7
SG Singapore—139163 rec.——Lingling18
CA Canada—124124 rec.——Lingling23

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

Languages●

  • Chinese40149%
  • English16420%
  • 13316%
  • French273%
  • Indonesian142%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Chinese40149%
English16420%
13316%
French273%
Indonesian142%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

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

  • a separate given name227 records spelled Ling-Ling2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, China, Hong Kong, Singapore

    Also written Lingling

  • French given name28 records spelled Ling-Ling3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, France, China, United States

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Lingling

  • Japanese given name18 records spelled Ling-Ling2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Japan, China, Philippines

    Also written Lingling

11 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.

Other recorded senses●

Ling-Ling is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In cdo, to take advice, (mudi- -ling-gau)

    as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect

  • In cdo, flit about, (gti-hud-ling-ling)

    as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect

  • In cdo, slight rain, (dai-i-ling )

    as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect

  • In cdo, to comprehend

    as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Evidence●

Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Ling-Ling
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AU AustraliaSA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present)19781—

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ling-Ling?
We estimate roughly 1.3 thousand people bear Ling-Ling (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
In which country does Ling-Ling have the most bearers?
Ling-Ling is most frequently recorded in China, where it is most often spelled lingling.
How common is Ling-Ling compared with other names?
In Hong Kong, Ling-Ling is the 433rd most common given name of 19,389 given names recorded there.
Is Ling-Ling a male or female name?
Ling-Ling is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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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, “Ling-Ling” — the 433rd most common given name in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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