Ching

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): Jing (various characters and tones), spelled Ching in the Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin Chinese, which was common up to the 20th century and remains widespread in Taiwan: Qing (various characters and tones), spelled Ch'ing in Wade–Giles: Qíng Chéng, spelled Ching based on its Cantonese pronunciation Zhuāng, spelled Ching based on its pronunciation in various Southern Min dialects 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. 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.