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Ting

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Pretty, graceful

Ting has been given to 89 babies in the U.S. since 1984. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1984, with 9 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 83% girls, 17% boys all-time.

Babies named Ting, 2006

1 in 791,000

Ting over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Ting over time

In 2006, Ting went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

19842006

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Ting: meaning, origin, and history

Pretty, graceful

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ting means

Ting means “pretty, graceful”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Ting is used in Chinese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /tʰiŋ/ for Ting.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 74 girls were recorded with the name Ting between 1984 and 2006. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1984; its best national rank was #7,370 in 1984.

In the United States, 15 boys were recorded with the name Ting between 1992 and 2001. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1992; its best national rank was #9,683 in 1992.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Ting?

Ting had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2006, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2006
1 in 791,000
5 of 3,956,166 births
Among girls only
1 in 380,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2006
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
548,442 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ting sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2006 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 548,442 children born in 2006 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ting. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tings were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ting was born before 1997 — so the typical Ting is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
47.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
74
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2000s — 47.3% of all recorded uses (35).

Is Ting rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1984 (9)
Years since peak
41
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,370
1984

Spellings of Ting

Ting is not the most common spelling — Tina is, with 30.7% against Ting's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Ting is used

Across 1910–2025, Ting was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,501,280 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Ting has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ting around the world

Where Ting ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2004–2011
    #4,764
    in 2011
  • South Australia
    1989–1989
    #692
    in 1989

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ting by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#7,370
1984
Peak year
1984
9 that year
First recorded
1984
Last recorded
2006
All-time count
74
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#9,683
1992
Peak year
1992
5 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
2001
All-time count
15
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ting

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Ting

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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