Given name & surname
Jiang
Jiang is a surname from Mandarin, ultimately from Chinese.
Original Mandarin姜
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Jiang comes from Mandarin, and ultimately from Chinese.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In English usage, Jiang as a surname developed from 姜. In English usage, Jiang as a surname developed from 強.
Jiang’s family of names
In English usage, Jiang as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with CHIANG. In English usage, Jiang as a surname has a related form in CHUNG. In English usage, Jiang as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with CHIONG.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 7
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Jiang
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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