Ying

Where Ying comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Ying.

Ying through the years
  1. 1980
    First appearance
    #5,544 among girls with 12 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1984
    Peak, #4,737
    15 babies named Ying, its best rank.
  3. 1985
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #10,677.
  4. 1998
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name. From this year on, more girls have.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Ying hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.