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Ging
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ging gīng
English
Etymology 1
Clipped form of Ginger, itself sometimes a nickname for Virginia.
Pronunciation
en /d͡ʒɪnd͡ʒ/
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Ging.wav Southern England
en ɪndʒ 1
Proper noun
en hypocoristic A diminutive of the female given names Ginger and Virginia.
en 1999 Susan Butler East to the Dawn http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=_cPt9golFSsC&pg=PA40&lpg=PA40&sig=MrKriDJsrFLaucNrEaavccr-D6M Amelia thereupon taught Ginger Park and Lucy. [...] In one picture Amelia and three friends—Katherine Dolan (referred to as Dolan), Lucy (Toot), Virginia Park (Ging) are lying on their stomachs, their chins cupped in their hands, staring at the camera either before or after a basketball game; it is Amelia who is holding the ball.
en 2003 Philip Furia Skylark http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=_snTPdh0U-gC&pg=PA50&lpg=PA50&sig=7QEDNIY8BTuweydWojjwqTAvCE4 But while Crosby was their first main topic of conversation, Johnny and Ginger soon began to have the experiences that draw people closer together. [...] “For years,” Mercer said, “anytime anything went wrong, Ging and I would just look at each other and say ‘Borough Hall!’ and think of that poor man who thought he was on his way to Harlem.”
en 2004 Tom Carson Gilligan's Wake http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=WxZ-SiBSrI8C&pg=PA331&lpg=PA331&sig=_qqNtswInUI_9Rb-m2Whuov5ucQ Her taste for philosophical conundrums having been whetted rather than sated by decades of nothing to do, Ging often likes to speculate at length on whether we’re an incarnation that became a refuge, or a refuge that became an incarnation.
Etymology 2
From a shortened Anglicized form of en ga Mac Fhionn, whence en McGinn.
Proper noun
s
en Irish.
Statistics
According to the 2010 United States Census, Ging is the 41959th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 518 individuals. Ging is most common among White (85.33%) individuals.
Further reading
Anagrams
en ggin GIGN
en diminutives of female given names