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Ai Ling name meaning

  • 愛玲love; tinkling of jade
  • 藹玲friendly; tinkling of jade
  • 艾玲Chinese mugwort; tinkling of jade
Letters
6
Syllables
2
First letter
A
Romanization
Mandarin (pinyin)
Character options
3
Category
Chinese Names
Gender
♀ Girl
  • Chinese characters愛玲藹玲艾玲
Peak 1980s: 10.9%
of the girl top-10 total
JPN Chinese table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadegirl
1940s–
1950s–
1960s–
1970s9.2%
1980s10.9%
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–

Chinese Names: A

Ai Ling is a Chinese girl's name from Mandarin; written 愛玲, it means 'love; tinkling of jade'.

Chinese characters for Ai Ling

This spelling is common in Mandarin (pinyin) romanization.

  • 愛玲

    love; tinkling of jade

    Mandarin ài líng

  • 藹玲

    friendly; tinkling of jade

    Mandarin ǎi líng

  • 艾玲

    Chinese mugwort; tinkling of jade

    Mandarin ài líng

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 Ai Ling

Ai Ling is a spelling of the Mandarin sounds ài líng or ǎi líng. Ai commonly stands for 愛 (love), 藹 (friendly) or 艾 (mugwort), while Ling is often 玲, the tinkling sound of jade. According to JPN, it peaked in the 1970s with 922 baby girls. The real meaning depends on the characters the family chose.

Gender♀ Girl
RomanizationMandarin (pinyin)
PartsAi + Ling
First letterChinese Names starting with A

Ai Ling in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
not in the top 10
1970s
Girl: 922 · 9.2%
1980s
Girl: 826 · 10.9%
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Ai Ling 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: 愛 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. MDBG: 愛 · mdbg.net · meaning
  3. Wiktionary: 玲 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  4. MDBG: 玲 · mdbg.net · meaning
  5. Wiktionary: 藹 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  6. MDBG: 藹 · mdbg.net · meaning
  7. Wiktionary: 艾 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  8. MDBG: 艾 · mdbg.net · meaning

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