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

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.