Family name origins & meanings
- English : unexplained; perhaps a variant of Pink.
- Chinese :
there are two
sources of this name, which also means ‘peace’. One is the name of a
senior minister of the state of Qi during the Spring and Autumn period
(722–481 bc), who was posthumously named Yan Pingzhong.
The other source is a city called Ping in the state of Han during the
Warring States period (403–221 bc). It was granted to a
marquis whose descendants adopted the place name as their surname.