Ping (surname)

For the surname romanized Ping in Wade–Giles, see Bing (Chinese surname).

Ping is the Mandarin pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname written 平 in Chinese character. It is romanized P'ing in Wade–Giles. Ping is listed 95th in the Song dynasty classic text Hundred Family Surnames.^[1] It is not among the 300 most common surnames in China in 2008.^{[2][needs update]}

Ping (平)

Pronunciation	Píng (Mandarin)
Language(s)	Chinese
Origin
Language(s)	Old Chinese
Other names
Variant form(s)	P'ing

Notable people

• Ping Dang (平當; died 4 AD), Han dynasty chancellor
• Ping Yan (平晏; died 20 AD), son of Ping Dang, Xin dynasty government minister
• Ping An (平安; died 1409), Ming dynasty general, adopted son of the Hongwu Emperor
• Ping Hailan (平海澜; 1885–1960), educator, co-founder of Utopia University
• Ping Fan (平凡; 1920–1999), Hong Kong actor
• Ping Hsin-tao (平鑫濤; 1927–2019), Taiwanese publisher and filmmaker, husband of Chiung Yao
• Ping Yali (平亚丽; born 1961), long jumper, first Chinese Paralympic gold medalist
• Ping An (平安; born 1978), singer

People from elsewhere with the surname

• Jean Ping (born 1942), Gabonese diplomat and Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union
• Nimrod Ping (1947–2006), politician in Brighton, England