Shing (surname)
Shing is a surname.
| Pronunciation | English: /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:
- Chéng (成 but not 程), spelled Sing or Shing based on the Cantonese pronunciation (Yale: Sìhng; Jyutping: Sing4; IPA: /sɪŋ²¹/).[1]
- Shèng (盛), homophonous with the above surname in Cantonese.[2]
- Xīn (辛), spelled Sing or Shing based on its pronunciation in the Teochew dialect of Southern Min (Peng'im: sing¹; IPA: /siŋ³/).[3]
- Xíng (邢), sometimes spelled in non-standard fashion as Shing, based on the Mandarin pronunciation (IPA: /ɕiŋ³⁵/).[4]
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:
- Shing Fui-On (成奎安; 1955–2009), Hong Kong actor
- David Shing (born 1970), Australian technology evangelist
- Harriet Shing (born 1976), Australian politician
- Yoshua Shing (born 1993), ni-Vanuatu table tennis player
References
- 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 (程) is homophonous with 成 in Mandarin but not in Cantonese, and when based on the latter is usually spelled Ching (Yale: Chìhng; Jyutping: Cing4; IPA: /t͡sʰɪŋ²¹/).
- Hanks, Coates & McClure 2016, p. 2447
- 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.
- 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.
- "Shing". Nederlandse Familienamenbank. Centrum voor familiegeschiedenis. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
- "How common is your last name?". Newsday. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
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