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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Ling

Recorded for both sexesMillennial

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

197

peak year 1981

More common than

72%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1981
13 births
Best rank
#5,447
in 1981
First recorded
1977
#10,531 that year
Last recorded
2024
no later published record
Average birth year
1995
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
27 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 198113#5,447Peak
  2. 199010#8,247
  3. 200410#10,373
  4. 201010#10,901
  5. 20009#10,388

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #5,447 in 1981 · peak births 13 in 1981

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 8% boys■ 92% girls

18 boys · 197 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Ling has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.