Dìng

given name · Latin script

Dìng is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English dingen, dyngen (strong verb), from Old English *dingan (“to ding”), from Proto-Germanic *dingwaną (“to beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰen- (“to beat, push”).

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 25K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 26K
  • NONorway1 in 53K

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)

4,973 people, 2010

Sources
69 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

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 Ding in US United States, MY Malaysia, ES Spain.

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 Dìng: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Dìng
  1. Middle Englishdingenstrong verb(measured from records)
  2. Old English*dingan“to ding”(measured from records)
  3. Proto-Germanic*dingwaną“to beat”(measured from records)
  4. Proto-Indo-European*dʰen-“to beat“to beat, push”(measured from records)
  5. Proto-Germanic*dangijaną“to beat“to beat, hammer, peen”(measured from records)

From Middle English dingen, dyngen (strong verb), from Old English *dingan (“to ding”), from Proto-Germanic *dingwaną (“to beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰen- (“to beat, push”). Related to Old English dengan (“to ding, beat, strike”, weak verb) and Old Norse dengja (“to hammer”, weak verb); both from Proto-Germanic *dangijaną (“to beat, hammer, peen”), causative of *dingwaną. Cognate with Icelandic dengja (“to hammer”), Swedish dänga (“to bang, beat”), Danish dænge (“to bang, beat”), German tengeln, dengeln (“to peen”).

Sources 3

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary
  • Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Dìng 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 Dìng is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—4,9731 in 67K9.2KDing32
ES Spain—4991 in 100K499Ding3
CH Switzerland—3241 in 26K324——
FI Finland—2271 in 25K227——
SE Sweden—1621 in 63K162——
NO Norway—1041 in 53K104—1
MY Malaysia#916———Ding50

4,973 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)

  • Cao Xiaodingb. 1931CNnot in their usual nameChinese acupuncturist
  • Ding Yangb. 1962CNChinese entomologist
  • Li DingSong dynasty person (CBDB = 13554)
  • Dingjun ZhaCNnot in their usual nameChinese otorhinolaryngologist (ORCID 0000-0002-9380-9209)

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 Dìng 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 Dìng mean, and where does it come from?
From Middle English dingen, dyngen (strong verb), from Old English *dingan (“to ding”), from Proto-Germanic *dingwaną (“to beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰen- (“to beat, push”). Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
Is Dìng a male or female name?
Dìng is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Dìng have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 5.0 thousand people named Dìng, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ding.
Where is Dìng most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dìng is densest in Finland — about 1 in 25 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Dìng?
In the United States, the national register counted 4,973 people named Dìng in 2010, about 1 in 67 thousand residents.
How common is Dìng compared with other names?
In Malaysia, Dìng is the 916th most common surname of 291,743 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Dìng” — the 916th most common surname in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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