Shing (surname)

Shing is a surname.

Shing
PronunciationEnglish:
/sɪŋ/ or /ʃɪŋ/
Language(s)Often Chinese
Other names
Variant form(s)Sing

Origins

Shing may be a spelling of multiple Chinese surnames based on different varieties of Chinese, listed below by their romanisation in Mandarin pinyin:

Shing is also a surname in other cultures.

Statistics

In the Netherlands, there were 44 people with the surname Shing as of 2007, up from zero in 1947.[5]

The 2010 United States Census found 340 people with the surname Shing, making it the 59,470th-most-common name in the country. This represented a decrease from 352 people (54,766th-most-common) in the 2000 Census. In both censuses, about four-fifths of the bearers of the surname identified as Asian, and about one-tenth as White.[6]

People

Notable people with these surnames include:

References

  1. Hanks, Patrick; Coates, Richard; McClure, Peter, eds. (2016). The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland. Oxford University Press. p. 484. ISBN 9780192527479. The other surname Chéng () is homophonous with in Mandarin but not in Cantonese, and when based on the latter is usually spelled Ching (Yale: Chìhng; Jyutping: Cing4; IPA: /t͡sʰɪŋ²¹/).
  2. Hanks, Coates & McClure 2016, p. 2447
  3. Hanks, Coates & McClure 2016, p. 2447. For the Teochew pronunciation, see Fielde, Adele M. (1883). "辛". A pronouncing and defining dictionary of the Swatow dialect, arranged according to syllables and tones. Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press. p. 488. Additionally see "辛". mogher.com. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
  4. Hanks, Coates & McClure 2016, p. 1291. Also romanised as Hsing in the Wade–Giles system used in Taiwan, and Shyng in the less-common Gwoyeu Romatzyh system.
  5. "Shing". Nederlandse Familienamenbank. Centrum voor familiegeschiedenis. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
  6. "How common is your last name?". Newsday. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.