girls:
260 births since 1980
#5456 (5th percentile)
boys:
140 births since 1980
#4446 (3rd percentile)
overall:
400 births since 1980
#7339 (5th percentile)
The name Ying is the #7,339 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 400 recorded births since 1980. This represents the 5.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,456 (4.5% percentile) for all time with 260 births since 1980. For boys, it ranks #4,446 (3.0% percentile) for all time with 140 births since 1980.
Ying first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1980 . Birth data for Ying is available in 29 out of the 30 years between 1980 and 2009 (29 years for girls and 18 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Ying has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for girls (65.0% of all recorded births). In 2009, 100.0% of babies named Ying were girls.
For girls, Ying reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #813) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1984, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2009.
For boys, Ying reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #746) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1987, with 6 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1998.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ying".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Ying. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 65.9% confident that Ying is pronounced as yihng, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is yihng, at 14.6% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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