Jing
A Chinese name meaning "quiet, still". Fewer than 140 people in Poland carry it, and it lands on women and men in almost equal measure, so meeting one would stick with you.
Jing Pronunciation
Jing is pronounced YEENK (/jink/).
What Jing means
Where Jing comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Jing comes from Chinese, a name where the spoken sound and the written character work together. The most familiar character is 静, read jìng, meaning quiet or still. It names calm water and a settled mind. Because several characters share the sound jing, the same spoken name can also point to a capital city or to something clear and bright, though the meaning kept here belongs to 静 alone.
That sense of quiet, cichy and spokojny in Polish, is not decoration added later. It sits in the character, used in Chinese for a long time and often given to daughters.
On a Polish site the spelling holds firm. Jing stays Jing, with no diminutive and no ending to decline. There is no variant. In a school dziennik it would sit among longer names as one clear syllable. What a Polish reader meets is short and grounded in a written sign that means still.
How many people are named Jing
1 in 203098 women in Poland is named Jing. 139 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2786 among female names.
Jing as a middle name
Jing is a first name for 139 women in Poland and a middle name for another 9, a 94/6 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2576th, between Jaryna (9) and Jordana (9).
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