Jing — unisex name

What the Data Says About Jing

The Social Security Administration has registered 125 babies named Jing between 1991 and 2016, spanning 26 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jing currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2016. The name reached its historical peak in 2003, when 12 babies received it in a single year. Jing is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 22 additional births since 1998.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jing performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 72 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Jing shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 33 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Jing in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jing in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 125 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.