# Sing (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/sing/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from English [in turn originating as an occupation].

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | occupational, named after the work an ancestor did |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 2,613 |
| US rank (2010) | 11,960 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 118,157 people |
| Change since 2000 | +9.2% (2,392 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | /ˈsɪŋ/, 1 syllable |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Sing in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 34% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 7.5% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 7.9% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 44% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.9% |
| Two or more races | 5.9% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Sing in Australia.

## People named Sing

- Billy Sing, Australian soldier in World War I

## Similar surnames

Song, Sung, Sink, Seng, Suniga, Sang, Singh, Sines, Swing, Sinks, Sims, Saenz.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.