Ching (surname)
There were 5,189 Chings in the United States during the year 2000 census, making it the 4,683rd 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]
As a surname, Ching may refer to:
- Ching, a Cantonese romanization of the Chinese surname Cheng
- Ching, Chng or Ch'ng, a Minnan romanization of the Chinese surname Zhuang
- Ching, an English surname originating from Devon and Cornwall.
People with the surname include:
- Brian Ching (born 1978), American soccer executive and retired player
- Charles Ching (1935-2000), Hong Kong barrister and judge
- Ching Cheung-ying (born 1958), Hong Kong politician and schoolteacher
- Cyrus S. Ching (1876–1967), Canadian-American industrialist, federal civil servant and labor union mediator
- Doe Ching (1915–1969), Hong Kong film director and screenwriter
- Frank Ching (born 1943), architecture and design graphics writer and academic
- Ching Hong Aik (born 1973), Malaysian former footballer
- Jeffrey Ching (born 1965), Filipino classical composer
- Joyce Ching (born 1995), Chinese-Filipino actress and model
- Julia Ching (1934-2001), professor of religion, philosophy and East Asian studies
- Ching Lau Lauro (flourished 1827–1839), stage name of a juggler and magician, possibly an Italian bandsman named Lauro Cecconi (1807–1892)
- Laura Lee Ching (born 1951), American surfer
- Ching Li (born 1945), Taiwanese retired actress
- Michael Ching, (born 1958), American composer
- Patrick Ching (born c. 1963), American conservationist, wildlife artist, ornithological illustrator and author of children's books
- Raymond Ching (born 1939), New Zealand painter
- Ren-Chang Ching (1898–1986), botanist
- Ching Siu-tung (born 1953), also known as Tony Ching, Hong Kong action choreographer, actor, film director and producer
- UK Ching (1937–2014), Bangladeshi freedom fighter
References
- 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.
- 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.
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