Ching (surname)

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Language(s)Chinese (Mandarin, Cantonese, Southern Min); English

Ching is a Chinese and English surname.

Origins

As a Chinese surname, Ching may be a romanisation of the pronunciations in different varieties of Chinese of the following surnames, listed based on their Pinyin romanisation (which reflects the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation): [1]

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Ching is also a Cornish surname, from the Cornish dialect form of the surname Chinn, which originated as a nickname for people with distinctive chins. [1]

Statistics

In Ontario, Canada, Ching was 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. [3]

According to statistics compiled by Patrick Hanks on the basis of the 2011 United Kingdom census and the Census of Ireland 2011, 493 people on the island of Great Britain and two on the island of Ireland bore the surname Ching as of 2011. In the 1881 United Kingdom census there had been 476 people with the surname Dann, primarily at Cornwall and neighbouring Devon. [1]

The 2010 United States Census found 7,417 people with the surname Ching, making it the 4,772nd-most-common name in the country. against 6,919 people (4,683rd-most-common) in the 2000 Census. In both censuses, about seven-tenths of the bearers of the surname identified as non-Hispanic Asian or Pacific Islander, about nine percent as non-Hispanic white, and between four and six percent as Hispanic of any ethnicity. [4] It was the 211th-most-common surname among Asian and Pacific Islanders. [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Hanks, Patrick; Coates, Richard; McClure, Peter, eds. (2016). The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland. Oxford University Press. p. 495. ISBN   9780192527479.
  2. ↑ Chao, Sheau-yueh J. (2000). Genealogical Research on Chinese Surnames. Genealogical Publishing Company. pp. 40–41. ISBN   9780806349466.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ "How common is your last name?". Newsday. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
  5. ↑ Butler, Rhett (2008). "Most Common Last Names for Asians and Pacific Islanders in the U.S." Mongabay . Retrieved 16 April 2012.
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