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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
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)
Juan
Juan, the Spanish version of John, is understood as “God is gracious.” The most famous Juan may be the fictional seducer Don Juan; others include Argentina’s Juan Perón and coffee icon Juan Valdez.
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, Baby Names (Laura Emerson), Baby Names Made Easy, The Best Baby Names for Boys, The Everything Baby Names Book, Numerology for Baby Names, 1,107 Baby Names That Stand the Test of Time
Jun
Jun is a Chinese name meaning “truth” or “truth of life.” Jun is also Japanese for “obedient” or “pure.”
Sources: Baby Names (Laura Emerson), Baby Names Made Easy, Baby Names Your Child Can Live With, The Everything Baby Names Book
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
Lan
Lan is a Vietnamese and Chinese name meaning “orchid” or “flower,” with Lang as a variant.
Sources: Baby Names Made Easy, Baby Names Your Child Can Live With, The Everything Baby Names Book
Lee
Lee derives from an Old English word meaning “meadow,” “pasture,” or “field,” and it can also be spelled Leigh. Though it can sound gentle, Lee feels rugged thanks to the jeans brand, Robert E. Lee, and Lee Majors, and it is used for both boys and girls.
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, 1,107 Baby Names That Stand the Test of Time, Baby Names Book, Baby Names (Laura Emerson), Baby Names Made Easy, Baby Names Your Child Can Live With, The Best Baby Names for Boys, The Everything Baby Names Book, Numerology for Baby Names
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
Lian
Lian is Chinese for “graceful willow” or “graceful tree.”
Sources: Baby Names Made Easy, The Everything Baby Names Book, Numerology for Baby Names
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
Mei
Mei is Chinese for “plum” or “beautiful,” and in Hawaiian it means “great.” Mei is also read as “virtuous and beautiful” or “forever enchanting” in Chinese, and “great one” in Latin.
Sources: Baby Names Made Easy, 10,000 Baby Names
Ming
Ming is a Chinese name meaning “bright” or “shiny.” Ming is also translated as “tomorrow.”
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, The Everything Baby Names Book, Baby Names Your Child Can Live With
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
Tai
Tai is a Vietnamese name meaning “talent” or “skill.” Tai is also Chinese, meaning “big.”
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
Ushi
Ushi is a Chinese name meaning “ox.”
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, Baby Names Made Easy, Baby Names Your Child Can Live With, The Everything Baby Names Book
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
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
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