Ling

At the 2020 census, 10,043 Americans bore the surname Ling — 3,467th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 29,800.

By the numbers

People: 10,043
Rank: 3,467th
How common: 1 in 29,800
Per 100,000: 3.4

Where the name comes from

From cmn ， or cdo.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 62.4%
White, not Hispanic 27.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Black, not Hispanic 3.3%
Hispanic or Latino 2.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Ling

Bai Ling (born 1966)Chinese-American actress
Ding Ling (1904–1986)Chinese writer
Gao Ling (born 1979)Chinese badminton player
Ling (600 BC–544 BC)ancient Chinese king of the Zhou dynasty
Pehr Henrik Ling (1776–1839)Swedish physical therapist, developer and teacher
Chen Ling (born 1987)Chinese archer
Li Ling (born 1985)Chinese athletics competitor
Julia Ling (born 1983)American actress

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

Surnames like Ling

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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.