Chinese surnames

宁

níng · Ning

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 240
Ancestral seat (junwang)
齐郡
Wikidata
Q10945883

In other languages

  • German Níng
  • English Ning
  • Spanish níng
  • French níng
  • Japanese 寧
  • Korean 닝
  • Russian Нин
  • Traditional Chinese 寧

Notable historical bearers

Deceased people recorded in Wikidata with this family name, ordered by how many Wikipedias cover them.

  • Ning Bin1959 – 2019

    Chinese control systems engineer and professor (1959–2019)

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Sources: the Hundred Family Surnames (public domain) with ancestral seats from the chinese-poetry dataset (MIT); spellings and people from Wikidata (CC0).