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Jia Xin name meaning

  • 嘉欣excellent, good; happy, joyous
  • 佳欣good, fine, beautiful; happy, joyous
  • 家欣home, family; happy, joyous
Letters
6
Syllables
2
First letter
J
Romanization
Mandarin (pinyin)
Character options
4
Category
Chinese Names
Gender
♀ Girl
  • Chinese characters嘉欣佳欣家欣嘉馨
Peak 2000s: 9.7%
of the girl top-10 total
JPN Chinese table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadegirl
1940s–
1950s–
1960s–
1970s–
1980s–
1990s–
2000s9.7%
2010s7.7%

Chinese Names: J

Jia Xin is a Chinese female given name spelled after Mandarin pronunciation; its meaning depends on the characters chosen, for example 嘉欣 or 佳欣.

Chinese characters for Jia Xin

This spelling is common in Mandarin (pinyin) romanization.

  • 嘉欣

    excellent, good; happy, joyous

    Mandarin jiā xīn

  • 佳欣

    good, fine, beautiful; happy, joyous

    Mandarin jiā xīn

  • 家欣

    home, family; happy, joyous

    Mandarin jiā xīn

  • 嘉馨

    excellent, good; fragrant

    Mandarin jiā xīn

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 Jia Xin

Jia Xin is a spelling of a Chinese name based on Mandarin pronunciation. Jia can be written 嘉 (excellent, good), 佳 (good, fine, beautiful) or 家 (home, family); Xin can be written 欣 (happy, joyous) or 馨 (fragrant). Example character combinations are 嘉欣, 佳欣, 家欣 or 嘉馨, but the same spelling can stand for other characters, so the meaning depends on the characters the family chose. According to JPN, the name peaked in the 2000s with 1,409 girls.

Gender♀ Girl
RomanizationMandarin (pinyin)
PartsJia + Xin
First letterChinese Names starting with J

Jia Xin in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
not in the top 10
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
Girl: 1,409 · 9.7%
2010s
Girl: 850 · 7.7%
People registered with Jia Xin 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: 嘉 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. Wiktionary: 欣 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  3. Wiktionary: 佳 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  4. Wiktionary: 家 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  5. Wiktionary: 馨 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

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