Bîng

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Bîng is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English bing, binge, benge, from Old Norse bingr (“heap of corn; bed; bolster”), cognate with Scots bing, Swedish binge (“heap”), Danish bing (“bin; box; compartment”).

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 56K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 83K
  • ISIceland1 in 117K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

3,991 people, 2020

Sources
134 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 56K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Bing in US United States, NL Netherlands.

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(measured from records)

Derivation of Bîng: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Bîng
  1. Middle Englishbing(measured from records)
  2. Old Norsebingr“heap of corn; bed; bolster”(measured from records)

From Middle English bing, binge, benge, from Old Norse bingr (“heap of corn; bed; bolster”), cognate with Scots bing, Swedish binge (“heap”), Danish bing (“bin; box; compartment”). Compare also Scottish Gaelic binnean meaning a small hill or slag heap.

Sources 6

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary
  • Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)
  • The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bîng 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.

Where Bîng is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States3,9911 in 83K4.1KBing34
NL Netherlands3101 in 56K295Bing4
ES Spain841 in 595K84—1
PL Poland401 in 957K29——
DK Denmark261 in 226K111——
GY Guyana51 in 150K5——
IS Iceland31 in 117K3——

3,991 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Bîng is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, China, United Kingdom, Hong Kong

    Also written Bing, Bįńg, Bỉng, Bìng

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1400160018002000Yang Ming, b. 1450Ye Ming, b. 1697Deng Guangming, b. 1907Ming Fay, b. 1943Li Ming, b. 1993
  • Yang Mingb. 1450not in their usual nameMing dynasty military officer (died 1503)
  • Ye Mingb. 1697not in their usual nameQing dynasty person CBDB = 73065
  • Deng Guangmingb. 1907CNnot in their usual namehistorian
  • Ming Fayb. 1943USnot in their usual nameChinese-born American sculptor (1943–2025)
  • Li Mingb. 1993CNnot in their usual nameChinese Go player
  • Xia Mingnot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 264484
  • Xia Mingnot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 344372
  • Xia Mingnot in their usual nameQing dynasty person CBDB = 86055
  • Wang Mingnot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 66298
  • Wu Mingnot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 247785

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)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Bîng under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Bîng mean, and where does it come from?
From Middle English bing, binge, benge, from Old Norse bingr (“heap of corn; bed; bolster”), cognate with Scots bing, Swedish binge (“heap”), Danish bing (“bin; box; compartment”). Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 4 other sources.
In which country does Bîng have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 4.0 thousand people named Bîng, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bing.
Where is Bîng most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bîng is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 56 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Bîng?
In the United States, the national register counted 3,991 people named Bîng in 2020, about 1 in 83 thousand residents.

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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, “Bîng”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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