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The ING surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,617 16391 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 185 20418 0 4
Change since 1880 +1432 +4027 +N/A +2
Other Countries
Australia 159 9294 0.001 10
United Kingdom 656 7278 0.001 14
Top States for ING by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 339 7900 0.001 10
Hawaii 263 303 0.022 217
Illinois 123 10666 0.001 10
Tennessee 94 6191 0.002 17
Texas 84 17535 0.000 4
Top States for ING by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Hawaii 263 303 0.022 217
Oregon 79 5414 0.002 23
Tennessee 94 6191 0.002 17
Washington 62 11448 0.001 11
California 339 7900 0.001 10

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called ING live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called ING represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called ING in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a ING by picking someone at random in Hawaii than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of ING

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the ING surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the ING surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of ING in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Asian/Pacific 951 58.81
White (Caucasian) 496 30.67
Mixed Race 111 6.86
White (Hispanic) 37 2.29
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the ING surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of ING in historical publications

{(° ING. A very common termination of local surnames, for an explanation of which see Preliminary Dissertation. In \Ir. Clark's " Surnames metrically Arranged and Classified," we have the following curious list with this termination, nearly eveiy one of whicli, though of local origin, loolis like the active participle of some well-known verb. "Thus, then, we"ve Standing, Rising, Falling, Curling, Cupping, Gumming, Calling; Budding, Browning, Bedding, Baring, Watering, Weeding, "WHiiting, AVaring ; Codling, Culling, Ayling, Catchuag, Peeling, Paring, Painting, Patching ; Stradliug, Suckling, Swadling, Spending, Living, Loving, Larking, Lending ; Fielding, Farming, Harrowing, Tilling, Bidding, Bending, Banning, Billing ; Bowling, Bidding, Banking, Bunuiug, Going, Laming, Keening, DuuuLng;

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.

Similar names to ING

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ING.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for ING

The following words are slight variants of ING that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.