[1] In Ontario, Canada, Ching was among the 200-most-common peculiarly Chinese surnames in a 2010 survey of the Registered Persons Database of Canadian health card recipients in the province.
[3] According to statistics compiled by Patrick Hanks on the basis of the 2011 United Kingdom census and the Census of Ireland 2011, 493 people on the island of Great Britain and two on the island of Ireland bore the surname Ching as of 2011.
In the 1881 United Kingdom census there had been 476 people with the surname Dann, primarily at Cornwall and neighbouring Devon.
[1] The 2010 United States Census found 7,417 people with the surname Ching, making it the 4,772nd-most-common name in the country.
In both censuses, about seven-tenths of the bearers of the surname identified as non-Hispanic Asian or Pacific Islander, about nine percent as non-Hispanic white, and between four and six percent as Hispanic of any ethnicity.