Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2002. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Zheng through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 11
- 11 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2002
- 6 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 2018. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 6 in 2002. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 3,119 as a first name in 2020; 43,117 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.
Zheng’s family of names
In English usage, Zheng as a surname has a related form in CHENG. In English usage, Zheng as a surname has a related form in CHENG.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 11
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Chingequivalent
- Jeongequivalent
- 正equivalent
- 郑equivalent
- 鄭equivalent
- Jenqequivalent
- 정equivalent
- Jengequivalent
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People named Zheng
- Qin Shi Huangfirst emperor of Qin Dynasty258 BC–209 BC
- Han ZhengVice President of the People's Republic of Chinaborn 1954
- Yin ZhengChinese skeleton racerborn 1996
- Wang ZhengChinese sport shooter (1979-)
- Tan ZhengChinese general1906–1988
- Fang ZhengChinese activistborn 1966
- Chu ChengChinese politician (1876–1951)
- Yu ZhengChinese screenwriterborn 1978
Characters named Zheng: Cao Zheng (Water Margin character).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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