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Kim Seng name meaning

  • 金声gold; metal; sound; voice
  • 金成gold; metal; to succeed; to accomplish
  • 金勝gold; metal; to win; victory
Letters
7
Syllables
2
First letter
K
Romanization
Hokkien
Character options
3
Category
Chinese Names
Gender
♂ Boy
  • Chinese characters金声金成金勝
Peak 1960s: 6.8%
of the boy top-10 total
JPN Chinese table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadeboy
1940s–
1950s–
1960s6.8%
1970s–
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–
1

records of Malaysian citizens on Wikidata carry the name Kim Seng

A count of Wikidata records, not of the population.

Chinese Names: K

Kim Seng is a Chinese boy's name from Hokkien that may be written 金声, 金成 or 金勝; its meaning depends on the characters chosen.

Chinese characters for Kim Seng

This spelling is common in Hokkien romanization.

  • 金声

    gold; metal; sound; voice

    Hokkien kim seng / Mandarin jīn shēng

    attested

  • 金成

    gold; metal; to succeed; to accomplish

    Hokkien kim sêng / Mandarin jīn chéng

  • 金勝

    gold; metal; to win; victory

    Hokkien kim sèng / Mandarin jīn shèng

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 Kim Seng

Kim Seng is a Chinese name spelling from Hokkien readings. Kim matches 金 (gold; kim), and Seng can stand for 聲 (voice; seng), 成 (to succeed; sêng) or 勝 (to win; sèng). The characters 金声 are recorded for Malaysians with this spelling. The actual meaning depends on the characters the family chose. According to JPN, the name peaked in the 1960s with 606 baby boys.

Gender♂ Boy
RomanizationHokkien
PartsKim + Seng
First letterChinese Names starting with K

Kim Seng in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
Boy: 606 · 6.8%
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 Kim Seng 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: 金 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. MDBG: 金 · mdbg.net · meaning
  3. Wiktionary: 聲 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  4. MDBG: 声 · mdbg.net · meaning
  5. Wiktionary: 成 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  6. MDBG: 成 · mdbg.net · meaning
  7. Wiktionary: 勝 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  8. MDBG: 勝 · mdbg.net · meaning

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