How rare is the name Ying?

15,166 people in the United States have the first name Ying, about 1 in 19,915. It ranks #1,887 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

YING

#1,887

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
15,166
About
1 in 19,915
This common or more
77.5%
Who bears it

Of the 15,166 people named Ying, 98.1% reported their origin as Asian or Pacific Islander and 1% as White. 85.4% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Ying peaked in 1989, when 25 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19802009
Peak year
1989
Births that year
25
In 2009
6 ▼76%
Recorded as
mostly female

At least 400 babies have been given the name since 1980. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Ying by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #6,611. The largest share of babies named Ying, 69.8%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1980s#6,611188
1990s#10,262142
2000s#20,06570
Generation X 1965–804.5%
Millennials 1981–9669.8%
Generation Z 1997–1225.8%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Exactly as common as Ying

1 other first name also has 15,166 people.

#1,887 Anabel · 15,166

Either side of Ying

#1,886 Anika · 15,176#1,887 Anabel · 15,166#1,889 Erma · 15,161#1,890 Karson · 15,154

Also a last name

As a last name, Ying ranks #11,363 of 156,621, with 2,653 people. See Ying as a last name

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