In the entire world, Qiang (Qiang 
, Цян 
) is a common primarily masculine, but very infrequently feminine first name. The first name Qiang is habitual in Macao, where it is quite a rare male name, Singapore, where it is quite a rare primarily boy's, but scarcely girly name, and Hong Kong, where it is quite a rare male name. Measured by absolute frequency, the name is most common in China, the United States, and Indonesia. More prevalently, Qiang is the last name as well as the forename.
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| Qiang | China, Kenya, Malaysia, Taiwan, United States |
| Цян | Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine |
Qiang is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: .
| wang qiang Tang dynasty person CBDB=139715 (b. 594) |
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| li qiang Tang dynasty person CBDB = 139037 (b. 599) |
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| zhang qiang Yuan dynasty person CBDB = 27999 (b. 1281) |
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| qiang jiangeng Qing dynasty person CBDB = 90937 (b. 1751) |
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| li qiang Chinese Paralympian (b. 1901) |
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wang qiang Chinese calligrapher (b. 1959) |
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gao qiang (b. 1962) |
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| wu qiang film director (born 1927) (b. 1927) |
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wang qiang Chinese cross-country skier (b. 1993) |
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| qiang cheng (b. 1944) |
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| fu qiang badminton player (b. 1960) |
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| lin qiang Chinese footballer, CN (b. 1960) |
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| zhang qiang author and photographer (b. 1960) |
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| qiang ji computer science researcher (b. 1963) |
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| wei qiang Chinese diplomat (b. 1963) |
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