Ling Family History
Ling Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Lyng in Norfolk which may derive from Old English hlinc ‘ridge bank’ from Lyng in Somerset which may derive from Old English hlenc ‘hill side ledge’ or from any of various minor places called from Middle English ling ‘heather heath(land)’ (Old Norse lyng) such as Ling Hill in Blythburgh (Suffolk). English: occasionally a variant of Leng . German: variant of Link . Chinese: Mandarin or Cantonese form of the surname 凌 meaning ‘ice’: from the first element of Ling Ren (凌人) post name of an official responsible for the storage of ice cubes a hereditary post long held by descendants of Kang Shu the younger brother of King Wu of Zhou (c. 1087–1043
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022