Cheng
A Chinese name carrying the sense of completion and sincerity. Fewer than 50 people in Poland use it, split across women and men, so most Poles have never met one.
Cheng Pronunciation
Cheng is pronounced KHENK (/xɛnk/).
What Cheng means
Where Cheng comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Cheng comes to Polish name registers from Chinese, and its meaning sits in the characters that spell it. Written 成, chéng means to complete, to finish, to bring a thing to its proper end. Written 誠, it means sincere or honest. The same sound holds both ideas, and both have attached to people who carry the name.
The Polish gloss reads porządek, układ: order, arrangement. That sense grew out of the older idea of completion. A task done fully is a task set in order, so the two meanings lean on each other.
Cheng has no Polish diminutive and no cross-gender variant. It arrives whole.
One documented bearer is Zheng Chenggong, the seventeenth-century commander known in the West as Koxinga, whose given name carries that same 成. A Polish child called Cheng today would likely be the only one on the class register. The teacher reads it once and learns it. What the name states plainly is finishing something and meaning it: completed, succeeded, sincere.
How many people are named Cheng
1 in 561742 men in Poland is named Cheng. 49 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5392 among male names.
Cheng as a middle name
Cheng is a first name for 49 men in Poland and a middle name for another 8, an 86/14 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 3500th, between Chau (8) and Chimaobi (8).
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#3498 Cemal8
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#3499 Chau8
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#3500 Cheng8
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#3501 Chimaobi8
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#3502 Ciro8