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Kok Seng name meaning

  • 国盛nation; flourishing, prosperous
  • 國成nation; succeed
  • 國勝nation; win, be victorious
Letters
7
Syllables
2
First letter
K
Romanization
Hokkien, Teochew
Character options
3
Category
Chinese Names
Gender
♂ Boy
  • Chinese characters国盛國成國勝
Peak 1960s: 6.2%
of the boy top-10 total
JPN Chinese table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadeboy
1940s–
1950s–
1960s6.2%
1970s–
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–
1

records of Malaysian citizens on Wikidata carry the name Kok Seng

A count of Wikidata records, not of the population.

Chinese Names: K

Kok Seng is a Chinese boy's name spelled from Hokkien and Teochew; its meaning depends on the characters the family chose.

Chinese characters for Kok Seng

This spelling is common in Hokkien and Teochew romanization.

  • 国盛

    nation; flourishing, prosperous

    Hokkien kok sēng / Teochew gog4 sêng6 / Mandarin guó shèng

    attested

  • 國成

    nation; succeed

    Hokkien kok sêng / Teochew gog4 sêng5 / Mandarin guó chéng

  • 國勝

    nation; win, be victorious

    Hokkien kok sèng / Teochew gog4 sêng3 / Mandarin guó 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 Kok Seng

Kok Seng is a two-syllable Hokkien and Teochew spelling. Kok stands for 国/國 (nation), Hokkien kok. Seng can stand for 盛 (flourishing), 成 (succeed) or 勝 (win). The characters 国盛 are recorded for Malaysians with this spelling. According to JPN, the name peaked in the 1960s with 549 baby boys. The meaning depends on the characters the family chose.

Gender♂ Boy
RomanizationHokkien, Teochew
PartsKok + Seng
First letterChinese Names starting with K

Kok Seng in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
Boy: 549 · 6.2%
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 Kok 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: 國 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. MDBG: 国 · mdbg.net · meaning
  3. Wiktionary: 盛 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  4. MDBG: 盛 · mdbg.net · meaning
  5. MDBG: 國 · mdbg.net · meaning
  6. Wiktionary: 成 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  7. MDBG: 成 · mdbg.net · meaning
  8. Wiktionary: 勝 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  9. MDBG: 勝 · mdbg.net · meaning

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