# Bing (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/bing/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /bɪŋ/, 1 syllable |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 356 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 356 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 10, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1957 | 7 | 3,278 |
| 1958 | 9 | 2,843 |
| 1961 | 7 | 3,384 |
| 1962 | 6 | 3,670 |
| 1964 | 10 | 2,681 |
| 1965 | 6 | 3,580 |
| 1968 | 6 | 3,718 |
| 1970 | 8 | 3,552 |
| 1971 | 5 | 4,988 |
| 1973 | 5 | 5,180 |
| 1974 | 6 | 4,696 |
| 1979 | 6 | 5,429 |
| 1980 | 5 | 6,351 |
| 2002 | 5 | 10,865 |
| 2008 | 6 | 11,229 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 4 | 4,564 |
| 2011 | 3 | 5,785 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 3 | 4,333 |

## People named Bing

- Emperor Bing of Song, emperor of the Song Dynasty
- Wang Bing, Chinese film director
- Bing Russell, American actor and baseball club owner (1926–2003)
- Xu Bing, Chinese artist (born 1955)
- Li Bing, 3rd century Chinese engineer
- Li Bing, Chinese footballer
- Michelle Bai, Chinese actress

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.