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Li Li name meaning

  • 麗麗beautiful, lovely; beautiful, lovely
  • 莉莉jasmine, used in female names; jasmine, used in female names
  • 俐俐clever; clever
Letters
4
Syllables
1
First letter
L
Romanization
Mandarin (pinyin)
Character options
3
Category
Chinese Names
Gender
♀ Girl
  • Chinese characters麗麗莉莉俐俐
Peak 1970s: 8%
of the girl top-10 total
JPN Chinese table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadegirl
1940s–
1950s–
1960s–
1970s8%
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–

Chinese Names: L

Li Li is a Chinese female given name spelled after Mandarin pronunciation; its meaning depends on the characters chosen, for example 麗麗 or 莉莉.

Chinese characters for Li Li

This spelling is common in Mandarin (pinyin) romanization.

  • 麗麗

    beautiful, lovely; beautiful, lovely

    Mandarin lì lì

  • 莉莉

    jasmine, used in female names; jasmine, used in female names

    Mandarin lì lì

  • 俐俐

    clever; clever

    Mandarin lì lì

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 Li Li

Li Li is a spelling of a Chinese name based on Mandarin pronunciation. Li can be written 麗 (beautiful, lovely), 莉 (jasmine, used in female names) or 俐 (clever), repeated. Example character combinations are 麗麗, 莉莉 or 俐俐, 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 1970s with 800 girls.

Gender♀ Girl
RomanizationMandarin (pinyin)
PartsLi
First letterChinese Names starting with L

Li Li in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
not in the top 10
1970s
Girl: 800 · 8%
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 Li Li 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: 麗 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. Wiktionary: 莉 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  3. Wiktionary: 俐 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

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