Shing (surname)
Shing is a surname.
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, spelled Sing or Shing based on the Cantonese pronunciation.
- Shèng, homophonous with the above surname in Cantonese.
- Xīn, spelled Sing or Shing based on its pronunciation in the Teochew dialect of Southern Min.
- Xíng, sometimes spelled in non-standard fashion as Shing, based on the Mandarin pronunciation.
Statistics
In the Netherlands, there were 44 people with the surname Shing as of 2007, up from zero in 1947.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 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.