Qingqing
A Chinese name meaning "lush green", the freshness of new growth. In Poland it's about as rare as a name gets: 18 people carry it, and it's given to both women and men, so meeting one would stick with you.
Qingqing Pronunciation
What Qingqing means
Where Qingqing comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Qingqing is written 青青 in Chinese. The character 青, qīng, names a color that sits between green and blue, the shade of fresh grass and young leaves. Repeat it and you get 青青, a green made denser, the verdant spread of a whole hillside in spring.
The doubled form is old. In the Shijing, the Book of Songs, one poem opens with 青青子衿, qīng qīng zǐ jīn, "green, green your collar," addressed to a longed-for student. Centuries later a Han poem among the Nineteen Old Poems (Gushi Shijiu Shou) begins 青青河畔草, "green, green the grass by the river." Poets reached for the repetition when a single qīng felt too thin.
Qingqing keeps no Polish diminutive and no variant. It travels as itself. On a Polish class register it would sit unusually, a Chinese given name among the Zuzannas and Antonis. The meaning stays plain wherever it lands: lush green, verdant, świeża zieleń.
How many people are named Qingqing
1 in 1502922 women in Poland is named Qingqing. 18 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #10794 among female names.