Ding

9,167 people in the United States were counted with the surname Ding in the 2020 census, making it the 3,774th most common in the country. That is about one person in 32,600.

By the numbers

People: 9,167
Rank: 3,774th
How common: 1 in 32,600
Per 100,000: 3.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Mandarin, Eastern Min

or cdo 陳.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Ding described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 93.5%
White, not Hispanic 4.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.1%
Black, not Hispanic 0.9%
Hispanic or Latino 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.03%

Notable people called Ding

Ding Liren (born 1992)Chinese grandmaster and former World Chess Champion
Ding Junhui (born 1987)Chinese snooker player
Ding Ning (born 1990)Chinese table tennis player
Chen Ding (born 1992)Chinese racewalker
Wen Ding (1200 BC–1101 BC)Shang king of China
Ding Xuexiang (born 1962)First-ranked Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China
Wo Ding (1800 BC–1591 BC)traditionally believed to be a king of the Shang Dynasty
Ding Xia (born 1990)Female Chinese volleyball player

People named Ding with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Ding

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.