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Pei Ling name meaning

  • 佩玲to wear, to admire; tinkling sound of jade
  • 珮玲jade waist pendant; tinkling sound of jade
  • 沛玲abundant; tinkling sound of jade
Letters
7
Syllables
2
First letter
P
Romanization
Mandarin (pinyin)
Character options
4
Category
Chinese Names
Gender
♀ Girl
  • Chinese characters佩玲珮玲沛玲佩灵
Peak 1980s: 9.3%
of the girl top-10 total
JPN Chinese table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadegirl
1940s–
1950s–
1960s–
1970s–
1980s9.3%
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–
1

records of Malaysian citizens on Wikidata carry the name Pei Ling

A count of Wikidata records, not of the population.

Chinese Names: P

Pei Ling is a Chinese girl's name in Pinyin; for example 佩玲 means 'to wear, to admire; tinkling of jade', depending on the characters chosen.

Chinese characters for Pei Ling

This spelling is common in Mandarin (pinyin) romanization.

  • 佩玲

    to wear, to admire; tinkling sound of jade

    Mandarin pèi líng

    attested

  • 珮玲

    jade waist pendant; tinkling sound of jade

    Mandarin pèi líng

  • 沛玲

    abundant; tinkling sound of jade

    Mandarin pèi líng

  • 佩灵

    to wear, to admire; spirit, quick-witted

    Mandarin pèi líng

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 Pei Ling

Pei Ling is the Hanyu Pinyin spelling of a Chinese Malaysian girl's name, the Mandarin sound pèi líng. Pei is commonly written 佩 'to wear, to admire', 珮 'jade pendant' or 沛 'abundant', and Ling 玲 'tinkling of jade' or 灵 'spirit, quick-witted'; the characters 佩玲 are recorded for this spelling in public data. The real meaning depends on the characters the family chose, since one spelling can stand for many characters. According to JPN, the name peaked in the 1980s with 704 baby girls.

Gender♀ Girl
RomanizationMandarin (pinyin)
PartsPei + Ling
First letterChinese Names starting with P

Pei Ling in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
not in the top 10
1970s
not in the top 10
1980s
Girl: 704 · 9.3%
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Pei 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: 佩 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. MDBG: 佩 · mdbg.net · meaning
  3. Wiktionary: 玲 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  4. MDBG: 玲 · mdbg.net · meaning
  5. Wiktionary: 珮 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  6. MDBG: 珮 · mdbg.net · meaning
  7. Wiktionary: 沛 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  8. MDBG: 沛 · mdbg.net · meaning
  9. Wiktionary: 靈 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  10. MDBG: 灵 · mdbg.net · meaning

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