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Mei Ling name meaning

  • 美玲beautiful; tinkling sound of jade
  • 美鈴beautiful; bell
  • 美齡beautiful; age
Letters
7
Syllables
2
First letter
M
Romanization
Mandarin (pinyin), Cantonese
Character options
4
Category
Chinese Names
Gender
♀ Girl
  • Chinese characters美玲美鈴美齡美靈
Peak 1980s: 15.3%
of the girl top-10 total
JPN Chinese table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadegirl
1940s–
1950s–
1960s–
1970s15.1%
1980s15.3%
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–

Chinese Names: M

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

Chinese characters for Mei Ling

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

  • 美玲

    beautiful; tinkling sound of jade

    Mandarin měi líng / Cantonese mei5 ling4

  • 美鈴

    beautiful; bell

    Mandarin měi líng / Cantonese mei5 ling4

  • 美齡

    beautiful; age

    Mandarin měi líng / Cantonese mei5 ling4

  • 美靈

    beautiful; spirit, quick, nimble

    Mandarin měi líng / Cantonese mei5 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 Mei Ling

Mei Ling is a spelling of a Chinese name based on Mandarin and Cantonese pronunciation. Mei can be written 美 (beautiful); Ling can be written 玲 (tinkling sound of jade), 鈴 (bell), 齡 (age) or 靈 (spirit, quick, nimble). Example character combinations are 美玲, 美鈴, 美齡 or 美靈, 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 1,517 girls.

Gender♀ Girl
RomanizationMandarin (pinyin), Cantonese
PartsMei + Ling
First letterChinese Names starting with M

Mei 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: 1,517 · 15.1%
1980s
Girl: 1,156 · 15.3%
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Mei 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: 美 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. Wiktionary: 玲 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  3. Wiktionary: 鈴 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  4. Wiktionary: 齡 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  5. Wiktionary: 靈 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

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