Zheng

Zheng is the 781st most common surname in the United States, shared by 43,117 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 6,932.

By the numbers

People: 43,117
Rank: 781st
How common: 1 in 6,932
Per 100,000: 14.4

Where the name comes from

From the cmn-pinyin romanization of cmn ^鄭.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 97.1%
White, not Hispanic 1.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.4%
Hispanic or Latino 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.01%

Notable people called Zheng

Zheng He (1371–1433)Chinese mariner, explorer, and diplomat
Zheng Jie (born 1983)Chinese female tennis player
Zheng Zhi (born 1980)Chinese footballer
Zheng Qinwen (born 2002)Chinese tennis player
Bao Zheng (999–1062)magistrate, judge, politician, mayor of Kaifeng, Northern Song dynasty
Han Zheng (born 1954)Vice President of the People's Republic of China
Wang Zheng (born 1987)Chinese hammer thrower
Zheng Saisai (born 1994)Chinese female tennis player

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

Surnames like Zheng

Zhen

Try it on yourself

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.