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Most popular Chinese names in official statistics
China, 2021
Source: Ministry of Public Security, Household Registration Management Research Center (公安部户政管理研究中心).
Taiwan, 2021-2023
Source: Ministry of the Interior, Department of Household Registration (內政部戶政司).
Featured in baby name books
Bao
Bao is a Chinese name read as “creative” or “treasure.” Bao is given as Vietnamese for “to order,” and as Arabic for “a man of knowledge.”
Sources: Baby Names Made Easy, The Everything Baby Names Book, 10,000 Baby Names
Bo
Bo is a Chinese name meaning “precious,” and actress Bo Derek is a famous bearer. Bo is also a Scandinavian short form of Robert, and one source reads it as French for “handsome.”
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, Baby Names Made Easy, Baby Names Your Child Can Live With, The Everything Baby Names Book, Baby Names (Laura Emerson)
Chen
Chen is a Chinese name meaning “great” or “vast.”
Sources: Baby Names (Laura Emerson), Baby Names Made Easy, The Everything Baby Names Book, Numerology for Baby Names
Chun
Chun is Chinese for “spring,” suggesting someone born in springtime or nature's renewal.
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, Baby Names (Laura Emerson), Baby Names Made Easy
Dai
Dai is Japanese for “great,” “grand,” or “large.” Dai can also be a version of David, meaning “beloved.”
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, Baby Names Made Easy, Baby Names Your Child Can Live With, The Everything Baby Names Book
Feng
Feng is a Chinese name with several meanings, including “phoenix,” “wind,” “sharp blade,” and “sweet gum tree.”
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, Baby Names Made Easy, Baby Names Your Child Can Live With
Gan
Gan is Chinese for “wanderer” or “dare, adventure,” and also has an Indian meaning, “sun.”
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, Baby Names Made Easy
Gen
Gen means “spring” in Japanese and “root” in Chinese.
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, Baby Names Made Easy
Heng
Heng is a Chinese name meaning “eternal” or “eternal beauty.”
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, Baby Names Made Easy
Howin
Howin is a Chinese name meaning “a swallow.”
Sources: Baby Names Your Child Can Live With, The Everything Baby Names Book
Hua
Hua is a Chinese name meaning “flower” or “like a flower.”
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, Baby Names Made Easy
Jin
Jin is a Japanese name meaning “tenderness.” Jin is Japanese for “excellent.”
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, Baby Names Made Easy, The Everything Baby Names Book, Baby Names (Laura Emerson)
Kai
Kai is most often linked to Hawaiian “sea,” and is rising, especially for boys. Kai is also Japanese for “forgiveness.”
Sources: Baby Names (Laura Emerson), Baby Names Made Easy, Baby Names Your Child Can Live With, The Everything Baby Names Book, The Best Baby Names for Boys, 1,107 Baby Names That Stand the Test of Time
Kang
Kang is a Chinese name meaning “healthy.” On The Simpsons, Kang is one of the drooling, one-eyed tentacled aliens from Rigel 7, alongside his sister Kodos.
Sources: Baby Names Your Child Can Live With, The Everything Baby Names Book, Sci-Fi Baby Names
Kong
Kong is a Chinese name meaning “glorious” or “sky.”
Sources: Baby Names Your Child Can Live With, The Everything Baby Names Book
Li
Li is a Chinese name meaning “strength” or “one with great strength.” Li is also Chinese for “profit.”
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, The Everything Baby Names Book, Baby Names Made Easy
Ling
Ling is Chinese for “delicate.” Ling is also given as Chinese for “kindness.”
Sources: Baby Names Your Child Can Live With, The Everything Baby Names Book, Baby Names Made Easy
Quan
Quan is Vietnamese for “soldier.” As a Chinese name Quan means “compassionate” or “hot spring.”
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, The Everything Baby Names Book, Baby Names Made Easy
Quon
Quon is Chinese for “bright” or “light.”
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, Baby Names Made Easy, Baby Names Your Child Can Live With, The Everything Baby Names Book
Tao
Tao is a Chinese name meaning “peach,” and other books give Chinese meanings such as “peace” or “big waves.” Tao is Chinese for “apple.”
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, Baby Names Made Easy, Baby Names Your Child Can Live With
Xiang
Xiang is a Chinese name meaning “fragrant” or “perfume,” and it can also mean “to soar.”
Sources: Baby Names Made Easy, Baby Names Your Child Can Live With, The Best Baby Names for Girls, The Everything Baby Names Book, 10,000 Baby Names
Xin
Xin is a Chinese name meaning “elegant” or “beautiful,” and also “new.”
Sources: Baby Names Made Easy, Baby Names Your Child Can Live With, The Everything Baby Names Book
Xue
Xue is a Chinese name meaning “snow,” and it can also mean “studious” or “scholarly.”
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, Baby Names Made Easy, The Everything Baby Names Book
Ye
Ye is a Chinese name meaning “universe,” though other books give “bright” or “light.” Ye is also a Ghanaian name for the firstborn of twins.
Sources: Baby Names Your Child Can Live With, The Everything Baby Names Book, 10,000 Baby Names, Baby Names Made Easy
Yin
Yin is a Chinese name meaning “silver” or “silvery lady.”
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, Baby Names Your Child Can Live With, The Everything Baby Names Book
Yu
Yu is a Chinese name meaning “jade,” and it can also mean “rain.”
Sources: Baby Names Made Easy, Baby Names Your Child Can Live With, The Everything Baby Names Book, 10,000 Baby Names
Zan
Zan is a Chinese name meaning “support,” “favor,” or “praise.” Zan is also a Hebrew name meaning “well fed.”
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, Baby Names Your Child Can Live With, The Everything Baby Names Book
Zhen
Zhen is a Chinese name meaning “precious” or “treasured.” Zhen is also read in Chinese as “pure.”
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, Baby Names Made Easy, Baby Names Your Child Can Live With, The Everything Baby Names Book
Zhong
Zhong is a Chinese name meaning “loyal” or “honest,” and it can also mean “second brother.”
Sources: Baby Names Made Easy, Baby Names Your Child Can Live With, The Everything Baby Names Book
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