Zheng
A Chinese name meaning "right, proper, correct". In Poland it stays rare: only about 32 people carry it, most of them men, and no newborns have taken it in years.
Zheng Pronunciation
Zheng is pronounced SKHENK (/sxɛnk/).
What Zheng means
Where Zheng comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Zheng comes from Chinese, where the sound attaches to the character 正, read zhèng. That character means upright, proper, correct. It sits in everyday words for justice, for noon, for doing a thing by the book. The origin here is filed simply as other, outside the European roots a Polish register usually holds.
The meaning stays close to the surface. To carry Zheng is to carry the word for right conduct. Chinese naming often builds a given name from a single dense character, so one syllable can hold a full idea. Here the idea is straightness, the line that does not bend.
On a Polish class register the name would stand alone, no diminutive beside it, no Zosia-style softening to fall back on. There are no listed variants, no cross-gender pair. Just Zheng. A Polish reader meets it as prawy, właściwy, the correct and the proper. The story ends where it began, at the character 正.
How many people are named Zheng
1 in 762364 men in Poland is named Zheng. 32 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #7233 among male names.