Ding
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Very minor damage caused by being struck; a small dent or chip
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 24 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/dɪŋ/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Ding is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 25K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 26K
- NONorway1 in 53K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 324 (measured from records)
- 1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
4,973 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from the noun Ding; also used in compounds with -ding/-dink from names ending in -d.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Ding is read
(measured from records)Ding is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English39%
Very minor damage caused by being struck; a small dent or chip.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Chinese33%
nonstandard spelling of dīng
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Suspend (for a time)
as a wordrecorded as wuuA Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
Discontinue
as a wordrecorded as wuuAn English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where the surname Ding is found
(measured from records)Ding 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 4,973 | 1 in 67K | 9.2K | Ding | 324 |
| ES Spain | — | 499 | 1 in 100K | 499 | — | 19 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 324 | 1 in 26K | 324 | Ding | 30 |
| FI Finland | — | 227 | 1 in 25K | 227 | — | 6 |
| SE Sweden | — | 162 | 1 in 63K | 162 | — | 16 |
| NO Norway | — | 104 | 1 in 53K | 104 | — | 4 |
| HK Hong Kong | #572 | — | — | — | Ding | 46 |
4,973 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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)Ding is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, from the noun Ding; also used in compounds with -ding/-dink from names ending in -d.
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In German, zu as. ags. an. thing 'Gerichtsverhandlung, Volksversammlung', ahd. ding 'Gerichtsverhandlung, (Streit-)Gegenstand'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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)- Samuel Tingb. 1936USnot in their usual nameChinese-American physicist
- Ding Ningb. 1990CNChinese table tennis player
- Ding Lirenb. 1992CNChinese grandmaster and former World Chess Champion
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)44 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 24 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Ding come from?
- from the noun Ding; also used in compounds with -ding/-dink from names ending in -d. Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Ding?
- In English /dɪŋ/ (Wiktionary).
- What does the name Ding mean?
- In English, Very minor damage caused by being struck; a small dent or chip.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Ding?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.0 thousand people named Ding, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ding. After it come Spain, Switzerland, Finland and Sweden; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Ding most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ding is densest in Finland — about 1 in 25 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ding?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,973 people named Ding in 2010, about 1 in 67 thousand residents.
- How common is Ding compared with other names?
- In Hong Kong, Ding is the 572nd most common surname of 8,142 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dingThe 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, “Ding” — the 572nd most common surname in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.