Byng
surname · Latin script
Meaning: (i) person living near a bing, a heap or receptacle; (ii) person from Bing, the Yiddish form of Bingen
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bɪŋ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Byng is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 10M(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 56Kas Bing
- USUnited States1 in 83Kas Bing
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Byng itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 12 (measured from records)
- 1 in 10M (inferred from the name graph)
3,991 named Bing, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Bing in US United States.
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)
(i) person living near a bing, a heap or receptacle; (ii) person from Bing, the Yiddish form of Bingen
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Byng 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 3,991as Bing | 1 in 83K | 4.1K | Bing | 10 |
| NL Netherlands | 310as Bing | 1 in 56K | 295 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 84as Bing | 1 in 595K | 84 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 40as Bing | 1 in 957K | 29 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 26as Bing | 1 in 226K | 111 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 5as Bing | 1 in 150K | 5 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | 3as Bing | 1 in 117K | 3 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 1 | 1 in 10M | 131 | — | 1 |
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); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Byng is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Julian H.G., English general
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- George Byng, 1st Viscount Torringtonb. 1663GBRoyal Navy admiral (1663-1733)
- George Byng, 3rd Viscount Torringtonb. 1701British Army general
- John Byngb. 1704GBRoyal Navy officer, shot for failure in combat (1704-1757)
- George Byng, 4th Viscount Torringtonb. 1740GBBritish Viscount
- John Byng, 5th Viscount Torringtonb. 1743GBBritish Peer of the Realm
- John Byng, 1st Earl of Straffordb. 1772GBBritish Army officer & politician (1772–1860)
- George Byng, 2nd Earl of Straffordb. 1806GBBritish politician
- George Byng, 7th Viscount Torringtonb. 1812British colonial administrator and courtier
- Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimyb. 1862GBBritish Army officer & 12th Governor-General of Canada (1862-1935)
- Georgia Byngb. 1965GBBritish children's writer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 179 | #106,101 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 159 | #110,825 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 155 | #106,477 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Byng mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) person living near a bing, a heap or receptacle; (ii) person from Bing, the Yiddish form of Bingen Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Byng?
- A machine transcription gives /bɪŋ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Byng have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.0 thousand people named Bing, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Byng most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Byng is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 10 million people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Byng?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 1 people named Byng, about 1 in 10 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/byngThe 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, “Byng”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.