Heng as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Heng

What is the meaning of the name Heng ?

The baby name Heng is a boy name , 1 syllables long and is pronounced HUHNG.

Heng is Chinese, Khmer in Origin.

Heng is primarily a romanization of Mandarin héng, most often written 恆 in traditional script and 恒 in simplified Chinese. The older graph belongs to Classical Chinese and combines the heart radical 忄 with 亙, an element associated with extension or continuity; as a word it denotes constancy, permanence, or regular recurrence. In Khmer usage, Heng corresponds to ហេង, a name and surname associated with luck or success.

As a Chinese given name, Heng may be chosen for boys or girls, since the written character rather than grammatical gender carries the sense. Liu Heng, Emperor Wen of Han in the second century BC, is an early historical bearer; later forms appear among Chinese communities in Singapore and the diaspora. Cantonese Hang and romanized Héng or Hêng reflect dialectal or transcriptional variation, while Cambodian Heng is common as both given name and family name.