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Kok Leong name meaning

  • 谷良valley; good
  • 國良country, nation; good
  • 國樑country, nation; roof beam
Letters
8
Syllables
2
First letter
K
Romanization
Cantonese
Character options
4
Category
Chinese Names
Gender
♂ Boy
  • Chinese characters谷良國良國樑國亮
Peak 1970s: 12.5%
of the boy top-10 total
JPN Chinese table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadeboy
1940s–
1950s–
1960s10.8%
1970s12.5%
1980s9.9%
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–
1

records of Malaysian citizens on Wikidata carry the name Kok Leong

A count of Wikidata records, not of the population.

Chinese Names: K

Kok Leong is a Chinese boy's name from Cantonese, for example 國良 'nation; good'; its meaning depends on the characters chosen.

Chinese characters for Kok Leong

This spelling is common in Cantonese romanization.

  • 谷良

    valley; good

    Cantonese guk1 loeng4 / Mandarin gǔ liáng

    attested

  • 國良

    country, nation; good

    Cantonese gwok3 loeng4 / Mandarin guó liáng

  • 國樑

    country, nation; roof beam

    Cantonese gwok3 loeng4 / Mandarin guó liáng

  • 國亮

    country, nation; bright

    Cantonese gwok3 loeng6 / Mandarin guó liàng

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 Kok Leong

Kok Leong is a Cantonese romanization. Kok usually stands for 國 (nation) or 谷 (valley), while Leong can be 良 (good), 樑 (roof beam) or 亮 (bright). The characters 谷良 are recorded for Malaysians with this spelling. According to JPN, the name peaked in the 1970s with 1,368 baby boys. The actual meaning depends on the characters the family chose.

Gender♂ Boy
RomanizationCantonese
PartsKok + Leong
First letterChinese Names starting with K

Kok Leong in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
Boy: 956 · 10.8%
1970s
Boy: 1,368 · 12.5%
1980s
Boy: 749 · 9.9%
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Kok Leong 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: 谷 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. MDBG: 谷 · mdbg.net · meaning
  3. Wiktionary: 良 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  4. MDBG: 良 · mdbg.net · meaning
  5. Wiktionary: 國 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  6. MDBG: 國 · mdbg.net · meaning
  7. Wiktionary: 樑 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  8. MDBG: 樑 · mdbg.net · meaning
  9. Wiktionary: 亮 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  10. MDBG: 亮 · mdbg.net · meaning

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