Ming — #9059 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Ming

The Social Security Administration has registered 349 babies named Ming between 1920 and 2024, spanning 105 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Ming currently holds the #9059 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1981, when 14 babies received it in a single year. Ming is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 142 additional births since 1971.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ming performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 80 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Ming shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 21 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California. In total, SSA state-level files list Ming in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ming 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 349 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.