Given name & surname
Heng
“an eternal beauty”
Heng is used as a given name and a surname. One Chinese interpretation is “an eternal beauty.”
Original Chinese邢
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Chinese interpretation is “an eternal beauty.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Chinese.
How it developed
In English usage, Heng as a surname developed from 王. In English usage, Heng as a surname developed from 邢.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1982. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Heng through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 21
- 21 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1982
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2018. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 6 in 1982. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,867 as a first name in 2020; 4,229 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Heng’s family of names
In Filipino usage, Heng as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with WANG. Heng has a conventional equivalent in the Portuguese form Henrique. Heng has a conventional equivalent in the Portuguese form HENRICO.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Heng has relatives in 5 languages. Lines run from its Chinese roots to each of them.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 18
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Heng
- Emperor Wen of Hanemperor of the Han dynasty202 BC–156 BC
- Heng SamrinCambodian politicianborn 1934
- Emperor Suzong of Tangemperor of the Tang Dynasty711–762
- Heng FreylingerLuxembourgish wrestler (1926-2017)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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