Wai-Ling
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Wai-Ling is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States≈1 in 3.5M(inferred from the name graph)
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 16K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 408K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 41 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈960 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Hong Kong, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Wailing in US United States, HK Hong Kong, NL Netherlands and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wai-Ling counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Wailing | 6 |
| HK Hong Kong | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Wailing | 8 |
| US United States | ≈95 est. | ≈1 in 3.5M | — | Wailing | 41 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈80 est. | ≈1 in 408K | — | Wailing | 8 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 3M | 38 | Wai-Ling | 27 |
| TW Taiwan | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Wailing | 5 |
| SG Singapore | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 729K | — | Wailing | 4 |
| NL Netherlands | 5 | 1 in 3.5M | 5 | Wailing | 5 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- 米雪b. 1955CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong television actress
- Liang Huilingb. 1962CNnot in their usual nameGovernor of Heilongjiang
- Christine Hub. 1963CNnot in their usual nameChinese actress
- Li Wei-lingb. 1965CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong journalist
- Cheryl Chanb. 1976SGnot in their usual nameSingaporean politician
- Elaine Yiub. 1980CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actress
- Rebecca Limb. 1986SGnot in their usual nameSingaporean actress
- Liu Huilingb. 1998CNnot in their usual nameChinese Go player
- Tan Hooi LingMYnot in their usual nameMalaysian entrepreneur
- Hwei-Lin ChuangUSnot in their usual namePh.D. The Ohio State University 1990
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 5 | #42,347 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 5 | #34,383 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Wai-Ling a male or female name?
- Wai-Ling is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Wai-Ling have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 959 people named Wai-Ling in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wailing.
- How common is the name Wai-Ling?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 5 people named Wai-Ling, about 1 in 3.5 million residents.
What do you want to know about Wai-Ling?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wai-lingThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Wai-Ling”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.