The PING surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,001	9922	0.001	11
United States (1880 census)	390	11740	0.001	8
Change since 1880	+2611	+1818	0	+3
Other Countries
Australia	86	16207	0.001	5
United Kingdom	155	19078	0	3

Top States for PING by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Indiana	451	1962	0.007	74
Kentucky	372	1743	0.009	92
California	298	10073	0.001	9
Illinois	231	6469	0.002	19
New York	187	11673	0.001	10
Top States for PING by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Kentucky	372	1743	0.009	92
Indiana	451	1962	0.007	74
Alaska	19	6114	0.003	30
Montana	21	7937	0.002	23
Iowa	61	8563	0.002	21

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

Classification and Origin of PING

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 PING 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 PING in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Asian/Pacific	588	19.59
White (Hispanic)	232	7.73
Mixed Race	72	2.4
Black/African American	42	1.4
Native American/Alaskan	11	0.37
White (Caucasian)	2,056	68.51

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

Similar names to PING

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PING.

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.