Hing is an English surname, as well as a spelling of various Chinese surnames based on their Southern Min or

Cantonese Cantonese ( zh, t=廣東話, s=广东话, first=t, cy=Gwóngdūng wá) is a language within the Chinese (Sinitic) branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages originating from the city of Guangzhou (historically known as Canton) and its surrounding ar ...

pronunciations.

Origins

The English surname Hing is probably a variant of

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, with added at the beginning due to prothesis. Other similar variants include Hynge and Henge. According to the ''

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'' of

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, the spelling Hynge is recorded as early as 1541 in

Croydon Croydon is a large town in south London, England, south of Charing Cross. Part of the London Borough of Croydon, a local government district of Greater London. It is one of the largest commercial districts in Greater London, with an extensi ...

, while there are various records of the spelling Hing throughout the 17th century in

London London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary dow ...

and

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. The English surname Ing originated both as a

toponymic surname A toponymic surname or topographic surname is a surname derived from a place name.

from the district of Ing in

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(whose name is preserved in various places there such as

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and

Ingatestone Ingatestone is a village and former civil parish in Essex, England, with a population of 5,365 inhabitants according to the 2011 census. Just north lies the village of Fryerning, the two forming now the parish of Ingatestone and Fryerning. In ...

), and from the

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given name

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. Hing is also a spelling, based on pronunciations in different

varieties of Chinese Chinese, also known as Sinitic, is a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family consisting of hundreds of local varieties, many of which are not mutually intelligible. Variation is particularly strong in the more mountainous southeast of ma ...

, of the following Chinese surnames, listed below based on their romanisation in Hanyu Pinyin (which reflects the

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pronunciation): * ( zh, links=no, c=}), spelled Hing based on its

Standard Cantonese Cantonese ( zh, t=廣東話, s=广东话, first=t, cy=Gwóngdūng wá) is a language within the Chinese (Sinitic) branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages originating from the city of Guangzhou (historically known as Canton) and its surrounding are ...

pronunciation ( zh, j=Hing1, cy=Hīng) * Wáng ( zh, links=no, c=}), spelled Hing based on its Teochew pronunciation (

Peng'im (: ( Teochew) (Swatow), : or , : or ) is a Teochew dialect romanisation system as a part of Guangdong Romanisation published by Guangdong Provincial Education Department in 1960. Tone of this system is based on Swatow dialect. The system ...

: ) * Xíng ( zh, links=no, c=}), spelled Hing based on its

Hokkien The Hokkien () variety of Chinese is a Southern Min language native to and originating from the Minnan region, where it is widely spoken in the south-eastern part of Fujian in southeastern mainland China. It is one of the national languages ...

pronunciation ( zh, poj=Heng) * ( zh, links=no, c=}), spelled Hing based on its pronunciations in various Southern Min dialects, including Hokkien ( zh, links=no, poj=Hēng) and Teochew (Peng'im: )

Statistics

Statistics compiled by

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on the basis of the 2011 United Kingdom census and the

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found 343 people with the surname Hing on the island of

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and none on the island of

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. In the

1881 United Kingdom census The United Kingdom Census of 1881 recorded the people residing in every household on the night of Sunday 3 April 1881, and was the fifth of the UK censuses to include details of household members. Data recorded Details collected include: address, ...

there were 186 bearers of the surname, primarily at Kent. The

2010 United States census The United States census of 2010 was the twenty-third United States national census. National Census Day, the reference day used for the census, was April 1, 2010. The census was taken via mail-in citizen self-reporting, with enumerators servi ...

found 980 people with the surname Hing, making it the 25,272nd-most-common surname in the country. This represented a decrease from 1,226 people (20,204th-most-common) in the 2000 census. In the 2000 US census, about 30% of the bearers of the surname identified as non-Hispanic white, 12% as non-Hispanic

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, and 44% as Asian or Pacific Islander; in the 2010 US census, these proportions had changed to 16%, 6%, and 64% respectively.

People

* Leah Hing (1907–2001), first Chinese-American woman to earn a pilot's license *

Alex Hing The Red Guard Party was a Chinese-American youth organization formed in February 1969. It was named after the Red Guards of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Origins The Red Guard formation resulted from several societal and economic pressures com ...

(born 1946), one of the leaders of the Red Guard Party, a radical Chinese-American organization founded in 1969 * Abigail Hing Wen (, born 1977), American novelist of Chinese Indonesian descent

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