Ching

At the 2020 census, 7,194 Americans bore the surname Ching — 4,769th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 41,500.

By the numbers

People: 7,194
Rank: 4,769th
How common: 1 in 41,500
Per 100,000: 2.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Cantonese

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Ching described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 72.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 12.0%
White, not Hispanic 8.3%
Hispanic or Latino 6.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Ching

Ho Ching (born 1953)Singaporean businesswoman and Spouse of the Prime Minister of Singapore
Brian Ching (born 1978)American soccer player
Li Ching (born 1975)Hong Kong table tennis player
Lee Ho Ching (born 1992)Hong Kong table tennis player
Lee Ching (1948–2018)Chinese actress

People named Ching with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Ching

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.