# Ping (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/ping/  
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 | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 16 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 6 / 10 (63% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## 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, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 5 | 10,427 |
| 1994 | 5 | 15,114 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 6 | 7,986 |

## People named Ping

- Song Ping, Chinese communist revolutionary and politician (1917–2026)
- Shi Ping, former party secretary of East China Normal University
- Jiang Ping, Chinese Jurist (1930–2023)
- Chu Anping, Chinese scholar (1909-1966)
- Zhang Ping, Chinese volleyball player
- Peng Ping, Chinese basketball player (born 1967)
- Zhao Jiping, Chinese composer
- He Ping, Chinese film director (1957–2023)
- Ping Fu, Chinese computer scientist and entrepreneur
- Li Ping, Chinese-Qatari table tennis player
- Ping Wu, American actor
- Wang Ping, Chinese film director and actress (1916-1990)

## 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.