Ting
given name · Chinese · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ting is a given name, most frequently recorded in Malaysia. It appears chiefly in Chinese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: the sound made when a small bell is struck.
- HKHong Kong1 in 3K◐
- MYMalaysia1 in 4.4K
- SGSingapore1 in 7K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈3.4K ●
- Sources
- 309 ●
- 1 in 42K ◐
across 11 countries
123K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Meaning & origin●
the sound made when a small bell is struck
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | #305 | 14,668 | 23K rec. | — | — | Ting | 109 |
| AU Australia | #878 | 10,614 | 16K rec. | — | 1 | Ting | 147 |
| US United States | — | 2,834 | 61K rec. | 1 in 117K | 3.9K | Ting | 309 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 2,347 | 3.9K rec. | — | listed | Ting | 107 |
| SG Singapore | #374 | 1,532 | 3.2K rec. | — | — | Ting | 123 |
| HK Hong Kong | #161 | 1,253 | 1.5K rec. | — | — | Ting | 88 |
| CA Canada | — | 1,094 | 2.6K rec. | — | 1 | Ting | 118 |
| CN China | — | 1,089 | 767 rec. | — | — | Ting | 74 |
| DE Germany | — | 1,033 | 1.4K rec. | — | — | Ting | 76 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 918 | 704 rec. | — | 37 | Ting | 26 |
| PH Philippines | — | 486 | 5.6K rec. | — | — | Ting | 87 |
| SE Sweden | — | 241△ | 42 rec. | 1 in 42K | 241 | — | 16 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Chinese72K36%
- English62K31%
- Malay21K11%
- 6.9K3%
- Spanish6.2K3%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Chinese | 71,723 | 36% |
| English | 62,462 | 31% |
| Malay | 21,443 | 11% |
| 6,915 | 3% | |
| Spanish | 6,165 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Ting is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, The sound of a small bell being struck.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Chinese, nonstandard spelling of tīng
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Samuel Chao Chung, US physicist
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In wuu, Drill (a nail hole)
as a wordA Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
In wuu, Injunction
as a wordAn English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Shanghai 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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 12 |
| 2000 | 13 |
| 2001 | 11 |
| 2002 | 11 |
| 2003 | 13 |
| 2004 | 17 |
| 2005 | 18 |
| 2006 | 24 |
| 2007 | 27 |
| 2008 | 31 |
| 2009 | 44 |
| 2010 | 49 |
| 2011 | 51 |
| 2012 | 60 |
| 2013 | 63 |
| 2014 | 61 |
| 2015 | 60 |
| 2016 | 61 |
| 2017 | 59 |
| 2018 | 61 |
| 2019 | 70 |
| 2020 | 69 |
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●
- Ni Zanb. 1301CNnot in their usual nameChinese painter (1301-1374)
- Ding Yangb. 1962CNnot in their usual nameChinese entomologist
- Ting Chenb. 1968DEformer chair of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
- Chang Tingb. 1970TWTaiwanese actress
- Agnes Chowb. 1996CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong political activist
- Zhao TingSong dynasty person (CBDB = 339674)
- Zu TingChinese Ofiicial
- Lu TingWestern Jin dynasty person CBDB = 31525
- Ma TingTang dynasty person CBDB = 193167
- Lu TingTang dynasty person CBDB = 179114
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 55 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.9K | #8,115 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.1K | #10,382 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3K | #9,782 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.8K | #4,559 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.2K | #4,559 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 241 | #4,582 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 199 | #9,079 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 193 | #3,530 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 177 | #4,494 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 149 | #46,646 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 76 | #9,156 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 69 | — |
Reference works 5
- 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 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 · 200 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Ting?
- We estimate roughly 3.4 thousand people bear Ting (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Ting have the most bearers?
- Ting is most frequently recorded in Malaysia, where it is most often spelled ting.
- How common is Ting compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Ting is the 305th most common given name of 325,158 given names recorded there.
- Is Ting a male or female name?
- Ting is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What does the name Ting mean?
- Recorded meaning: the sound made when a small bell is struck
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About this data
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, “Ting” — the 305th most common given name in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.