The LING surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	8,221	3968	0.003	31
United States (1880 census)	1,046	5255	0.002	21
Change since 1880	+7175	+1287	+0.001	+10
Other Countries
Australia	1,362	1211	0.008	83
United Kingdom	4,143	1518	0.009	90

Top States for LING by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	1,871	1924	0.006	55
New York	1,094	1867	0.006	58
Texas	503	4697	0.002	24
Pennsylvania	405	4199	0.003	33
Florida	398	5559	0.002	25
Top States for LING by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Hawaii	136	794	0.011	112
New York	1,094	1867	0.006	58
California	1,871	1924	0.006	55
Washington	300	2777	0.005	51
Alaska	28	3616	0.004	45

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called LING live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called LING represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called LING in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a LING by picking someone at random in Hawaii than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of LING

Region of origin: Asia

Country of origin: China

Language of origin: Chinese

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the LING surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of LING in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	499	6.07
Mixed Race	219	2.66
White (Hispanic)	180	2.19
Native American/Alaskan	28	0.34
Asian/Pacific	4,025	48.96
White (Caucasian)	3,270	39.78

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the LING surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of LING in historical publications

(origin: Teutonic.) English, long, heath; also, a species of long grass; a long, slender fish.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

LING. Heath, in some dialects, is so called — also a fish ; but a more probable derivation is from one of the two parishes of Ling in Somersetshire and in Norfolk. NEYf LING. Probably Newlyn, a parish in Cornwall.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.

Similar names to LING

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LING.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.