Bīng
given name · Latin script
Bīng is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: From Middle English bing, binge, benge, from Old Norse bingr (“heap of corn; bed; bolster”), cognate with Scots bing, Swedish binge (“heap”), Danish bing (“bin; box; compartment”).
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Middle Englishbing(measured from records)
- Old Norsebingr“heap of corn; bed; bolster”(measured from records)
From Middle English bing, binge, benge, from Old Norse bingr (“heap of corn; bed; bolster”), cognate with Scots bing, Swedish binge (“heap”), Danish bing (“bin; box; compartment”). Compare also Scottish Gaelic binnean meaning a small hill or slag heap.
Cited for this meaning 6
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)
- The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bīng counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 4.1K | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 295 | — |
| NO Norway | — | 170 | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 131 | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 111 | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Wang Bingb. 1967CNChinese film director
- Li Bingb. 1969CNChinese footballer
- Michelle Baib. 1986CNnot in their usual nameChinese actress
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
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bīng mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English bing, binge, benge, from Old Norse bingr (“heap of corn; bed; bolster”), cognate with Scots bing, Swedish binge (“heap”), Danish bing (“bin; box; compartment”). Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 4 other sources.
- In which country does Bīng have the most bearers?
- Bīng is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Bīng?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C4%ABngThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Bīng”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.