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Worldwide, Whiting (怀廷 , Whiting , ויטינג ) is a rare principally male, but scarcely female first name. The first name Whiting is characteristic of Israel, where it is a rare male name, China, where it is a very rare principally masculine, but very seldom girly name, and the United States, where it is a very rare largely male, but infrequently female name. Much more prevalently, Whiting is the last name as well as the forename.
Whiting is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: .