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Siew Eng name meaning

  • 秀英elegant, beautiful; flower, blossom; outstanding
  • 秀瑩elegant, beautiful; lustrous and transparent, jade-like
  • 秀鶯elegant, beautiful; oriole
Letters
7
Syllables
1
First letter
S
Romanization
Hokkien, Teochew
Character options
3
Category
Chinese Names
Gender
♀ Girl
  • Chinese characters秀英秀瑩秀鶯
Peak 1960s: 8.9%
of the girl top-10 total
JPN Chinese table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadegirl
1940s–
1950s7.5%
1960s8.9%
1970s–
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–

Chinese Names: S

Siew Eng is a Chinese girl's name from Hokkien or Teochew, for example 秀英, 'elegant; outstanding', depending on the characters chosen.

Chinese characters for Siew Eng

This spelling is common in Hokkien and Teochew romanization.

  • 秀英

    elegant, beautiful; flower, blossom; outstanding

    Hokkien siù eng / Teochew siu3 êng1 / Mandarin xiù yīng

  • 秀瑩

    elegant, beautiful; lustrous and transparent, jade-like

    Hokkien siù êng / Mandarin xiù yíng

  • 秀鶯

    elegant, beautiful; oriole

    Hokkien siù eng / Teochew siu3 êng1 / Mandarin xiù yīng

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 Eng

Siew Eng is a Chinese girl's name spelled after Hokkien or Teochew pronunciation. Siew usually stands for 秀 (Hokkien siù, Teochew siu3), while Eng can be 英 (flower; outstanding), 瑩 (lustrous, jade-like) or 鶯 (oriole). According to JPN, it peaked in the 1950s with 963 baby girls. The actual meaning depends on the characters the family chose.

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

Siew Eng in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
Girl: 963 · 7.5%
1960s
Girl: 842 · 8.9%
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 Eng 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. MDBG: 秀 · mdbg.net · meaning
  3. Wiktionary: 英 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  4. MDBG: 英 · mdbg.net · meaning
  5. Wiktionary: 瑩 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  6. MDBG: 瑩 · mdbg.net · meaning
  7. Wiktionary: 鶯 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  8. MDBG: 鶯 · mdbg.net · meaning

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