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Kok Wai name meaning

  • 国伟nation; great, magnificent
  • 國威nation; power, pomp
  • 國維nation; maintain, preserve
Letters
6
Syllables
2
First letter
K
Romanization
Cantonese
Character options
3
Category
Chinese Names
Gender
♂ Boy
  • Chinese characters国伟國威國維
Peak 1980s: 8.7%
of the boy top-10 total
JPN Chinese table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadeboy
1940s–
1950s–
1960s–
1970s6.8%
1980s8.7%
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–
1

records of Malaysian citizens on Wikidata carry the name Kok Wai

A count of Wikidata records, not of the population.

Chinese Names: K

Kok Wai is a Chinese boy's name spelled from Cantonese; its meaning depends on the characters the family chose.

Chinese characters for Kok Wai

This spelling is common in Cantonese romanization.

  • 国伟

    nation; great, magnificent

    Cantonese gwok3 wai5 / Mandarin guó wěi

    attested

  • 國威

    nation; power, pomp

    Cantonese gwok3 wai1 / Mandarin guó wēi

  • 國維

    nation; maintain, preserve

    Cantonese gwok3 wai4 / Mandarin guó wéi

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 Wai

Kok Wai is a two-syllable Cantonese spelling. Kok stands for 国/國 gwok3 (nation). Wai can stand for 伟 wai5 (great), 威 wai1 (power) or 維 wai4 (maintain). The characters 国伟 are recorded for Malaysians with this spelling. According to JPN, the name peaked in the 1970s with 742 baby boys. The meaning depends on the characters the family chose.

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

Kok Wai in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
not in the top 10
1970s
Boy: 742 · 6.8%
1980s
Boy: 654 · 8.7%
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Kok Wai 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: 偉 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  4. MDBG: 伟 · mdbg.net · meaning
  5. MDBG: 國 · mdbg.net · meaning
  6. Wiktionary: 威 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  7. MDBG: 威 · mdbg.net · meaning
  8. Wiktionary: 維 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  9. MDBG: 維 · mdbg.net · meaning

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