Dring
surname · Latin script
Meaning: To press; squeeze; crowd; push
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈdɹɪŋ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dring is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 71K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 143K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 164 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 71K (inferred from the name graph)
≈920 people, est.
Highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
To press; squeeze; crowd; push.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dring counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈920 est. | ≈1 in 71K | listed | Dring | 136 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 187K | — | Dring | 27 |
| US United States | — | 299 | 1 in 1.1M | 393 | Dring | 164 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 365K | — | Dring | 8 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 156K | — | Dring | 52 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 143K | — | Dring | 29 |
| NO Norway | — | 28 | 1 in 195K | 28 | — | 3 |
| AI Anguilla | #806 | — | — | — | Dring | 2 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Dring 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 English, ‘Young man’, from Old Norse drengr.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
In Irish, A well-known landed family in Co. Cork since mid-seventeenth century. The name is derived from dreng, an Old-English word denoting free tenant
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
In French, brrr, whirr (a whirring sound, such as that of a machine)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In grt, room
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Edmund Hunt Dringb. 1863GBBritish bookseller (1863–1928)
- Robert Harding Dringb. 1896(1896-1958)
- William Dringb. 1904GBBritish artist (1904–1990)
- Madeleine Dringb. 1923GBEnglish composer and actress (1923-1977)
- Ray Dringb. 1924GBEnglish footballer (1924-2003)
- Lawrie Dringb. 1931GBBritish scouting leader (1931-2012)
- Donald M. Dringb. 1932GBbotanist (1932-1978)
- Clive Dringb. 1934GBEnglish cricketer (born 1934)
- Celeste DringGBEnglish actress and writer
- Thomas DringBritish publisher
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 393 | #50,055 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 374 | #58,578 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 299 | #66,164 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 28 | #36,391 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dring mean, and where does it come from?
- To press; squeeze; crowd; push. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Dring?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈdɹɪŋ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Dring have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 920 people named Dring in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dring.
- How common is the name Dring?
- In the United States, the national register counted 299 people named Dring in 2010, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
- How common is Dring compared with other names?
- In Anguilla, Dring is the 806th most common surname of 7,424 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dringThe 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, “Dring” — the 806th most common surname in Anguilla. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.