Throughout the world, Ponting (Ponting 
, Понтинг, פונטינג 
) is a very rare principally boy's, but very infrequently female given name. The first name Ponting is characteristic of Philippines, where it is a very rare masculine name, and India, where it is an extremely rare mostly male, but uncommonly girly name. Predominantly, Ponting is the last name as well as the forename.