Ping
A Chinese name meaning level, even, at peace. Fewer than 60 people in Poland carry it, split almost evenly between women and men, so most Poles have never met one.
Ping Pronunciation
Ping is pronounced PEENK (/pink/).
What Ping means
Where Ping comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ping comes to us through Chinese, from the character 平, romanised as píng. The character means level and even. From that flatness grows a second sense, calm, a surface with nothing to disturb it.
That calm runs through common words. 和平 (hépíng) is peace between people. 平安 (píng'ān) is a wish for safety, said to someone leaving on a long road. The short meaning we give the name, peaceful, sits close to where the word actually lives.
In Poland the name arrives without local baggage. It has no imieniny, no home-grown diminutive. On a school register it would stand a little apart from the Zuzannas and Antonis nearby. Ping stays as it is. The meaning holds to the character 平: level, even, peaceful.
How many people are named Ping
1 in 704495 women in Poland is named Ping. 56 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4973 among female names.
Ping as a middle name
Ping is a first name for 56 women in Poland and a middle name for another 9, an 86/14 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2630th, between Pauliina (9) and Quyen (9).
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#2628 Oyindamola9
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#2629 Pauliina9
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#2630 Ping9
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#2631 Quyen9
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#2632 Rachelle9