Lingling

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Ling-Ling in ZA South Africa, MA Morocco 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.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Lingling 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 name988 records spelled Lingling2 spellings in the group

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

  Also written Ling-Ling

• French given name804 records spelled Lingling3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, France, China, United States

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Ling-Ling

• Japanese given name171 records spelled Lingling2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Japan, China, Philippines

  Also written Ling-Ling

33 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●

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 11 years between 2010–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Pan Linglingb. 1970SGSingaporean actress
• Lingling WeiCNChinese journalist and author

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 67 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Lingling?

We estimate roughly 1.3 thousand people bear Lingling (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.

In which country does Lingling have the most bearers?

Lingling is most frequently recorded in China, where it is most often spelled lingling.

How common is Lingling compared with other names?

In Hong Kong, Lingling is the 433rd most common given name of 19,389 given names recorded there.

Is Lingling a male or female name?

Lingling 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.