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Around the globe, Dingle (Ding , Dingle , 丁格尔 ) is quite a common gender-neutral forename. The first name Dingle is habitual in Macao, where it is quite a rare female name, Hong Kong, where it is quite a rare unisex name, and Singapore. Measured by absolute frequency, it is commonest in China, Indonesia, and Philippines. Much more prevalently, Dingle is the last name as well as the forename.
Dingle is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Ding Dong Daddy , the comics character; Ding Minjun , the Wuxia novel character by Jin Yong, The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber; Ding Chunqiu , character in Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils and Ding Yuehua , the fictional character, wuxia.