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Pei Pei name meaning

  • 贝贝cowrie shell, old currency (repeated)
  • 佩佩to wear, to admire (repeated)
  • 蓓蓓flower bud (repeated)
Letters
6
Syllables
1
First letter
P
Romanization
Mandarin (pinyin)
Character options
3
Category
Chinese Names
Gender
♀ Girl
  • Chinese characters贝贝佩佩蓓蓓
Peak 1980s: 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–
1970s–
1980s8.3%
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–
1

records of Malaysian citizens on Wikidata carry the name Pei Pei

A count of Wikidata records, not of the population.

Chinese Names: P

Pei Pei is a Chinese girl's name from Mandarin; for example 佩佩 means 'to admire' and 蓓蓓 'flower bud', depending on the characters chosen.

Chinese characters for Pei Pei

This spelling is common in Mandarin (pinyin) romanization.

  • 贝贝

    cowrie shell, old currency (repeated)

    Mandarin bèi bèi (Wade–Giles pei pei)

    attested

  • 佩佩

    to wear, to admire (repeated)

    Mandarin pèi pèi

  • 蓓蓓

    flower bud (repeated)

    Mandarin bèi bèi (Wade–Giles pei pei)

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 Pei

Pei Pei is a Chinese Malaysian girl's name that repeats the syllable Pei, from Mandarin. The spelling matches pèi in Pinyin, as in 佩 'to wear, to admire', or bèi, spelled pei in the older Wade–Giles style, as in 贝 'cowrie shell' and 蓓 'flower bud'; the characters 贝贝 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 628 baby girls.

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

Pei Pei 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: 628 · 8.3%
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Pei Pei 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: 貝 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. MDBG: 贝 · mdbg.net · meaning
  3. Wiktionary: 佩 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  4. MDBG: 佩 · mdbg.net · meaning
  5. Wiktionary: 蓓 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  6. MDBG: 蓓 · mdbg.net · meaning

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