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Siew Choo name meaning

  • 秀珠elegant, outstanding; pearl
  • 秀慈elegant, outstanding; kind, benevolent
Letters
8
Syllables
1
First letter
S
Romanization
Hokkien, Hakka
Character options
2
Category
Chinese Names
Gender
♀ Girl
  • Chinese characters秀珠秀慈
Peak 1960s: 9.8%
of the girl top-10 total
JPN Chinese table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadegirl
1940s–
1950s–
1960s9.8%
1970s–
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–

Chinese Names: S

Siew Choo is a Chinese female given name spelled after Hokkien and Hakka pronunciation; its meaning depends on the characters chosen, for example 秀珠 or 秀慈.

Chinese characters for Siew Choo

This spelling is common in Hokkien and Hakka romanization.

  • 秀珠

    elegant, outstanding; pearl

    Hokkien siù chu / Hakka siu chû / Mandarin xiù zhū

  • 秀慈

    elegant, outstanding; kind, benevolent

    Hokkien siù chû / Mandarin xiù cí

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 Siew Choo

Siew Choo is a spelling of a Chinese name based on Hokkien and Hakka pronunciation. Siew can be written 秀 (elegant, outstanding); Choo can be written 珠 (pearl) or 慈 (kind, benevolent). Siew matches 秀 (Hokkien siù, Hakka siu); Choo matches 珠 (Hokkien chu, Hakka chû) or 慈 (Hokkien chû). Example character combinations are 秀珠 or 秀慈, 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 1960s with 920 girls.

Gender♀ Girl
RomanizationHokkien, Hakka
PartsSiew
First letterChinese Names starting with S

Siew Choo in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
Girl: 920 · 9.8%
1970s
not in the top 10
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 Siew Choo 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: 秀 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. Wiktionary: 珠 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  3. Wiktionary: 慈 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

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