Given name & surname
Qing
“of the deep water”
Qing is used as a given name and a surname. One Chinese interpretation is “of the deep water.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Chinese interpretation is “of the deep water.”
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 2003. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Qing through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 0 boys · 5 girls
- Most popular year
- 2003
- 5 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 girls is 5 in 2003. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 5,158 as a first name in 2020; 325 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 17
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Qing
- Jiang QingChinese political figure and wife of Mao Zedong (1914–1991)
- Ai QingChinese poet (1910-1996)
- Tian QingChinese badminton playerborn 1986
- Pang QingChinese figure skaterborn 1979
- Wei QingHan dynasty general150 BC–105 BC
- Guo QingChinese taekwondo practitioner (born 2000)
- Li Qingdiverborn 1972
- Liu QingChinese business executiveborn 1978
- Mei QingChinese landscape painter, calligrapher, writer and poet (1623-1697)
Characters named Qing: Song Qing (Water Margin character), Zhang Qing (Water Margin character (Featherless Arrow)), Zhang Qing (Water Margin character (Gardener)).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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