Līng
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Līng is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Hong Kong it is the 5th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Middle English lyng, from Old Norse lyng.
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 510(inferred from the name graph)
- TWTaiwan≈1 in 1.3K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 1.7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Līng 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 477 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 510 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100,000 named Lu, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Hong Kong, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ling in MY Malaysia, HK Hong Kong, ID Indonesia, Lu in CN China, TW Taiwan, Flora in US United States and Flóra in HU Hungary.
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)
- Middle Englishlyng(measured from records)
- Old Norselyng(measured from records)
From Middle English lyng, from Old Norse lyng.
Sources 9
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Līng 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 | — | ≈1,100,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Lu | 206 |
| US United States | #683 | 26,834as Flora | 1 in 12K | 47K | Flora | 477 |
| MY Malaysia | #25 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Ling | 135 |
| TW Taiwan | #652 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Lu | 174 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 17K | listed | Ling | 129 |
| HK Hong Kong | #5 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 510 | — | Ling | 104 |
| HU Hungary | #580 | 12,393as Flóra | 1 in 788 | 12K | Flóra | 53 |
| AL Albania | — | 3,522as Flora | 1 in 873 | 3.5K | — | 1 |
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 2020; Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Līng mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English lyng, from Old Norse lyng. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 7 other sources.
- In which country does Līng have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 million people named Lu in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Līng?
- In the United States, the national register counted 26,834 people named Flora in 2020, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
- How common is Līng compared with other names?
- In Hong Kong, Līng is the 5th most common given name of 23,276 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/l%C4%ABngThe 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, “Līng” — the 5th most common given name in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.