Given name & surname
Sheng
“one who is victorious”
Sheng is used as a given name and a surname. One Chinese interpretation is “one who is victorious.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Chinese interpretation is “one who is victorious.”
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 1980. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Sheng through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 386
- 16 boys · 370 girls
- Most popular year
- 1985
- 29 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 2016. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 6 in 1985. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,994 as a first name in 2020; 2,551 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.
Sheng’s family of names
Sheng may belong to the same name family as SHENNG. This is a tentative spelling connection.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 19
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Sheng
- Chen ShengQin Dynasty rebel250 BC–207 BC
- Liu Sheng, Prince of ZhongshanPrince of Zhongshan (died 113 BC)200 BC–112 BC
- Xu ShengGeneral serving warlord Sun Quan (died c.225)200–225
- Thomas Yeh Sheng-nanArchbishop and Apostolic Nuncioborn 1941
- Xiong Shengfourth viscount of the state of Chu during the early Zhou Dynasty of ancient China
- Anqi ShengChinese hermit
- Sheng ThaoAmerican politician (born 1985)
- Li ShengChinese Cao Wei state official (died 249)
- Sun ShengJin dynasty historian (c.302–373)
Characters named Sheng: Guan Sheng (Chinese novel Water Margin fictional character), Guo Sheng (Water Margin character).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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