Fun Facts About the Name Cing
- 650 babies named Cing: U.S. records list 650 babies given the name Cing from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Cing Mean?
Cing is not an inherited English given name; it is chiefly a Latin-alphabet spelling of Chinese names, and its meaning comes from the Chinese character being written rather than from the letters themselves. In Tongyong Pinyin, the romanization system Taiwan used officially from 2002 to 2008, the letter c represents the sound that Hanyu Pinyin writes as q. So Cing stands for the Mandarin syllable qīng (or its other tones), which can correspond to 青 "blue-green," 清 "clear, pure," 晴 "clear (of weather)," 慶 "celebration," or other characters. Because the spelling does not show which character is intended, no single meaning can be attached to it. The same sound appears as Qing in Hanyu Pinyin and as Ch'ing in Wade-Giles, so those spellings reflect the same underlying Chinese name pronounced alike.
Cing Name History & Origins
The spelling reflects modern romanization practice rather than an older name tradition carried down through English. Taiwan adopted Tongyong Pinyin in 2002, and in that system the letter c replaced the ch' of Wade-Giles, which had been the usual way of writing Mandarin in Taiwan before. A person or place written Cing today would earlier have appeared in English-language records as Ch'ing or Ching, and would be written Qing on the mainland and in Taiwan since Hanyu Pinyin became the standard for official romanization there in 2009. Outside Chinese usage, the string cing appears in Old English texts as a variant spelling of cyning ("king"), but that is an unrelated common noun and not a source of personal names spelled Cing.
How Popular is the Name Cing?
Cing has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2016. Its best rank was #3,112 in 2016.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #5,005 | 26 | 0.0016% |
| 2024 | #4,784 | 28 | 0.0017% |
| 2023 | #4,773 | 28 | 0.0017% |
| 2022 | #3,431 | 46 | 0.0028% |
| 2021 | #3,402 | 46 | 0.0028% |
| 2020 | #3,293 | 47 | 0.0029% |
| 2019 | #3,807 | 39 | 0.0023% |
| 2018 | #3,798 | 39 | 0.0023% |
| 2017 | #3,314 | 48 | 0.0028% |
| 2016 | #3,112 | 53 | 0.0030% |
| 2015 | #3,221 | 51 | 0.0029% |
| 2014 | #3,667 | 42 | 0.0024% |
| 2013 | #3,482 | 45 | 0.0026% |
| 2012 | #3,862 | 40 | 0.0023% |
| 2011 | #5,776 | 23 | 0.0013% |
| 2010 | #5,140 | 27 | 0.0015% |
| 2009 | #9,520 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2008 | #18,135 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2005 | #17,053 | 5 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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How the Name Cing Shapes Your Personality and Life?
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