Ling (玲) is the Chinese word for "delicate" or "tinkling jade" — also 灵 (spirit, quick-witted) or 凌 (rising up). A common element in Chinese girls' names.
Ling is widely used in China.
Ling does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ling reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.