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Ling Ling name meaning

  • 玲玲tinkling sound of jade; tinkling sound of jade
  • 鈴鈴bell; bell
  • 伶伶clever; clever
Letters
8
Syllables
1
First letter
L
Romanization
Mandarin (pinyin), Cantonese
Character options
3
Category
Chinese Names
Gender
♀ Girl
  • Chinese characters玲玲鈴鈴伶伶
Peak 1970s: 8.3%
of the girl top-10 total
JPN Chinese table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadegirl
1940s–
1950s–
1960s–
1970s8.3%
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–

Chinese Names: L

Ling Ling is a Chinese female given name spelled after Mandarin and Cantonese pronunciation; its meaning depends on the characters chosen, for example 玲玲 or 鈴鈴.

Chinese characters for Ling Ling

This spelling is common in Mandarin (pinyin) and Cantonese romanization.

  • 玲玲

    tinkling sound of jade; tinkling sound of jade

    Mandarin líng líng / Cantonese ling4 ling4

  • 鈴鈴

    bell; bell

    Mandarin líng líng / Cantonese ling4 ling4

  • 伶伶

    clever; clever

    Mandarin líng líng / Cantonese ling4 ling4

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 Ling Ling

Ling Ling is a spelling of a Chinese name based on Mandarin and Cantonese pronunciation. Ling can be written 玲 (tinkling sound of jade), 鈴 (bell) or 伶 (clever), repeated. Example character combinations are 玲玲, 鈴鈴 or 伶伶, 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 835 girls.

Gender♀ Girl
RomanizationMandarin (pinyin), Cantonese
PartsLing
First letterChinese Names starting with L

Ling Ling in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
not in the top 10
1970s
Girl: 835 · 8.3%
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 Ling Ling 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: 玲 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. Wiktionary: 鈴 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  3. Wiktionary: 伶 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

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