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Ching

UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Ching has been given to 114 babies in the U.S. since 1982. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1994, with 12 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 74% boys, 26% girls all-time.

Babies named Ching, 1998

1 in 735,000

Ching over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Ching over time

In 1998, Ching went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19801998

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Ching: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ching means

Ching is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Ching is used in Atayal.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 84 boys were recorded with the name Ching between 1982 and 1998. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1994; its best national rank was #3,730 in 1982.

In the United States, 30 girls were recorded with the name Ching between 1980 and 1992. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1985; its best national rank was #7,055 in 1985.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Ching?

Ching had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1998, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1998
1 in 735,000
5 of 3,677,189 births
Among boys only
1 in 382,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1998
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
509,768 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ching sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1998 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 509,768 children born in 1998 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ching. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Chings were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ching was born before 1990 — so the typical Ching is around 35 today.

Median birth year
1990
About 35 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
56.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
84
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 56.0% of all recorded uses (47).

Is Ching rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1994 (12)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,730
1982

Spellings of Ching

Ching is not the most common spelling — King is, with 40.1% against Ching's 0.09%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Ching around the world

Where Ching ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2023–2023
    #4,108
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Ching by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,730
1982
Peak year
1994
12 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
1998
All-time count
84
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#7,055
1985
Peak year
1985
9 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
1992
All-time count
30
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ching

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

ChikeChironChickChiefChinoChisomChicagoChiokeChilohChidiChiaChisumChikaChikamsoChivasChinChimaChinonsoChiamChimdiKhingAkingKiingChibueze

Sibling names for Ching

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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