Ching (surname)

As a surname, Ching may refer to:

• Ching, a Cantonese romanization of the Chinese surname Cheng
• Chng or Ch'ng, the POJ romanization of the Chinese surname Zhuang
• Ching, a Minnan romanization of the Chinese surname Zhuang
• Ching, an English surname originating from Devon and Cornwall.

There were 5,189 Chings in the United States during the year 2000 census, making it the 4,683th surname overall and the 211th surname among Asian and Pacific Islanders.^[1] Ching was also listed among the 200-most-common peculiarly Chinese surnames in a 2010 survey of the Registered Persons Database of Canadian health card recipients in the province of Ontario.^[2]

• Ren-Chang Ching (Ching, 1898–1986), a pteridologist
• Ching Lau Lauro, stage name of an English magician (flourished 1827–1840)

References

1. US Census Bureau. 2000 US Census. Op. cit. Butler, Rhett. "Most Common Last Names for Asians and Pacific Islanders in the U.S." 2008. Accessed 16 Apr 2012.
2. Shah, B. R.; Chiu, M.; Amin, S.; Ramani, M.; Sadry, S.; Tu, J. V. (2010). "Surname lists to identify South Asian and Chinese ethnicity from secondary data in Ontario, Canada: A validation study". BMC Medical Research Methodology 10: 42. doi:10.1186/1471-2288-10-42. PMC 2877682. PMID 20470433.