The MING surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,434	6968	0.002	16
United States (1880 census)	474	10101	0.001	9
Change since 1880	+3960	+3133	+0.001	+7
Other Countries
Australia	46	27071	0	3
United Kingdom	193	16843	0	4

Top States for MING by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	814	5308	0.002	24
New York	582	5059	0.003	31
Texas	351	8000	0.002	17
Florida	327	8773	0.002	20
Mississippi	210	2597	0.007	74
Top States for MING by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Mississippi	210	2597	0.007	74
Montana	34	6593	0.004	38
Arkansas	88	5060	0.003	33
Washington DC	18	4821	0.003	31
New York	582	5059	0.003	31

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

Classification and Origin of MING

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 MING 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 MING in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	997	22.49
Asian/Pacific	715	16.13
Mixed Race	153	3.45
White (Hispanic)	102	2.3
Native American/Alaskan	29	0.65
White (Caucasian)	2,438	54.98

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

Similar names to MING

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MING.

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.