Ming

At the 2020 census, 3,274 Americans bore the surname Ming — 9,499th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 91,300.

By the numbers

People: 3,274
Rank: 9,499th
How common: 1 in 91,300
Per 100,000: 1.1

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 40.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 28.1%
Black, not Hispanic 19.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 7.1%
Hispanic or Latino 4.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Ming

Yao Ming (born 1980)Chinese basketball player
Jiajing Emperor of Ming (1507–1567)Emperor of the Ming dynasty from 1521 to 1567
Wang Ming (1904–1974)Chinese politician
Cheng Ming (born 1986)Chinese archer
Chen Chiung Ming (1878–1933)Chinese politician
Fu Ming (born 1983)Chinese association football referee
Li Ming (born 1971)Chinese footballer
Xue Ming (born 1987)Chinese volleyball player

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

Surnames like Ming

Try it on yourself

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.