MEANING & HISTORY
What does Ling mean?
Ling can represent Chinese 灵, associated with spirit or soul, or 铃, a bell or chime. The researched entry explicitly allows other characters with similar pronunciation.
The Roman letters preserve a sound rather than one uniquely recoverable written meaning; a bearer’s actual Chinese characters are needed to select between these glosses.
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Pronunciation & syllables
Synthetic voice reading
Origin and name formation
Chinese
People with the name Ling
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Mae-Ling Lokko
Ghanaian-Filipino designer and artist (born 1987)
Descriptions: Wikidata contributors (CC0).
Similar names to Ling
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Names in this collection
- Bing♂♀Personal nickname with a documented Bingville association
- King♂English king, the ruler-title word
- Lina♀Short form of names ending in lina
- Linn♂♀Short form of Linnéa and other Lin-sounding names
- Lino♂Italian form of Linus; flax in the Greek root
- Linog·As a Visayan word: earthquake or tremble
- Ning·Peaceful or calm in one Chinese writing
- Ting·Pretty or graceful, when written 婷 in Chinese
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Recorded use
- Wikidata
- 1 person records with this given name · Q96104569 · CC0
These records document use of the spelling; they are separate from birth statistics.