The first name Ping
A girl’s name.
1 syllable Female Also a surname
Meaning and origin
A female given name.
From Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Popularity in the United States
Babies named Ping at birth, 1880–2025
In 1994, 5 girls born in the United States were named Ping, the 15,114th most popular girls’ name that year. It was used most in 1991, when 6 were.
GirlsBoys
16
babies named Ping since 1880
#15,114
rank in 1994
1991
peak year
US Social Security Administration, from applications for a Social Security card. A name is only published for a year when at least five babies were given it, so quieter years show as zero.
Famous people named Ping
13 on Wikidata, most written-about first
- Song PingChinese communist revolutionary and politician (1917–2026)
- Shi PingFormer party secretary of East China Normal University, 1911–2024
- Jiang PingChinese Jurist (1930–2023)
- Chu AnpingChinese scholar (1909-1966)
- Zhang PingChinese volleyball player, born 1982
- Peng PingChinese basketball player (born 1967)
- Zhao JipingChinese composer, born 1945
- He PingChinese film director (1957–2023)
- Ping FuChinese computer scientist and entrepreneur, born 1958
- Li PingChinese-Qatari table tennis player, born 1986
- Ping WuAmerican actor, born 1956
- Wang PingChinese film director and actress (1916-1990)
Questions
- When was Ping most popular?
- 1991 in the United States, when 6 babies were named Ping, its highest rank at 7,986th.
- Is Ping also a surname?
- Yes. Ping is used as a surname as well as a first name; its surname page has the origin and how many people carry it.