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Ah Lek name meaning

  • 亞力familiar prefix; strength
  • 亞歷familiar prefix; experience
Letters
5
Syllables
2
First letter
A
Romanization
Hokkien
Character options
2
Category
Chinese Names
Gender
♂ Boy
  • Chinese characters亞力亞歷
Peak 1950s: 6.5%
of the boy top-10 total
JPN Chinese table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadeboy
1940s–
1950s6.5%
1960s–
1970s–
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–
1

records of Malaysian citizens on Wikidata carry the name Ah Lek

A count of Wikidata records, not of the population.

Chinese Names: A

Ah Lek is a Chinese boy's nickname from Hokkien; Lek can be 力 'strength' or 歷 'experience'.

Chinese characters for Ah Lek

This spelling is common in Hokkien romanization.

  • 亞力

    familiar prefix; strength

    Hokkien a le̍k / Mandarin yā lì

  • 亞歷

    familiar prefix; experience

    Hokkien a le̍k / Mandarin yā lì

One spelling can stand for several characters. The meaning of a name depends on the characters the family chose; characters marked “attested” are found in records of real names.

About the name Ah Lek

Ah is a familiar prefix in Chinese nicknames, written 亞 or 阿 (亞 serves as a variant of 阿 in this use). Lek is a Hokkien spelling of the sound le̍k, which can stand for 力 (strength) or 歷 (experience). According to JPN, the name peaked in the 1950s with 586 baby boys. The meaning depends on the characters the family chose.

Gender♂ Boy
RomanizationHokkien
PartsAh + Lek
First letterChinese Names starting with A

Ah Lek in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
Boy: 586 · 6.5%
1960s
not in the top 10
1970s
not in the top 10
1980s
not in the top 10
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Ah Lek as their first name (as published by JPN), by decade of birth, for the decades in which it was in the top 10 for its sex in the JPN Chinese table. Bar length shows the name’s share of that decade’s top-10 total for the sex (the percentage after the count), because those totals differ between decades. Source: JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)

Character pages

Each page shows the character’s recorded meanings, dialect readings and every Malaysian spelling.

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: 亞 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. MDBG: 亞 · mdbg.net · meaning
  3. Wiktionary: 力 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  4. MDBG: 力 · mdbg.net · meaning
  5. Wiktionary: 歷 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  6. MDBG: 歷 · mdbg.net · meaning

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