Shing: meaning “a victorious man”, origin & popularity

Meaning & origin

What it means

One Chinese interpretation is “a victorious man.”

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 1983. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Shing through the years

Babies since 1880: 10; 5 boys · 5 girls
Most popular year: 1983; 5 babies
2025: 0; Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20: —; Too few births to compare

Boys Girls

Shing in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1983–2025, per million births of each sex. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1989. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 610 as a first name in 2020; 499 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.

Shing’s family of names

Shing has a related form in Shyng.

Walk Shing’s family in the name graph

Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

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Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

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Across languages 3

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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