Given name & surname
Jing
“one who is flawless”
Jing is used as a given name and a surname. One Chinese interpretation is “one who is flawless.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Chinese interpretation is “one who is flawless.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Chinese.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1991. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Jing through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 147
- 22 boys · 125 girls
- Most popular year
- 2001
- 12 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 6 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 13,124 as a first name in 2020; 1,810 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.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 10
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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People named Jing
- Ho ChingSingaporean businesswoman and Spouse of the Prime Minister of Singaporeborn 1953
- MC JinAmerican rapper and actorborn 1982
- Wu JingChinese actor and directorborn 1974
- Li Jinggymnastborn 1970
- Cai JingGrand Chancellor of Emperor Huizong of Norther Song Dynasty (1047-1126); one of the Six Thieves (traitors) of Song
- Liu Jingswimmerborn 1990
- Li JingChinese Tang dynasty general (571-649)
- Feng JingChinese gymnastborn 1985
- Ai Jingsinger, guitaristborn 1969
Characters named Jing: Guo Jing (wuxia fiction), Li Jing (a figure in Chinese mythology and a god in Chinese folk religion), Jiang Jing (the Chinese novel ''Water Margin'').
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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