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Kok Wah name meaning

  • 國華country, nation; radiance, splendour
  • 國樺country, nation; birch
Letters
6
Syllables
2
First letter
K
Romanization
Cantonese
Character options
2
Category
Chinese Names
Gender
♂ Boy
  • Chinese characters國華國樺
Peak 1960s: 8.1%
of the boy top-10 total
JPN Chinese table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadeboy
1940s–
1950s–
1960s8.1%
1970s–
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–

Chinese Names: K

Kok Wah is a Chinese male given name spelled after Cantonese pronunciation; its meaning depends on the characters chosen, for example 國華 or 國樺.

Chinese characters for Kok Wah

This spelling is common in Cantonese romanization.

  • 國華

    country, nation; radiance, splendour

    Cantonese gwok3 waa4 / Mandarin guó huá

  • 國樺

    country, nation; birch

    Cantonese gwok3 waa6 / Mandarin guó huà

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 Wah

Kok Wah is a spelling of a Chinese name based on Cantonese pronunciation. Kok can be written 國 (country, nation); Wah can be written 華 (radiance, splendour) or 樺 (birch). In Hokkien 國華 reads kok hôa and is usually spelled Kok Hua, so the spelling Wah comes from Cantonese. Example character combinations are 國華 or 國樺, 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 1960s with 721 boys.

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

Kok Wah in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
Boy: 721 · 8.1%
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 Wah 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. Wiktionary: 華 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  3. Wiktionary: 樺 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

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