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Siew Fong name meaning

  • 秀芳elegant, beautiful; fragrant
  • 小芳small, little; fragrant
Letters
8
Syllables
2
First letter
S
Romanization
Hakka, Cantonese
Character options
2
Category
Chinese Names
Gender
♀ Girl
  • Chinese characters秀芳小芳
Peak 1960s: 8.4%
of the girl top-10 total
JPN Chinese table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadegirl
1940s–
1950s–
1960s8.4%
1970s8%
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–

Chinese Names: S

Siew Fong is a Chinese girl's name from Hakka or Cantonese, for example 秀芳, 'elegant; fragrant', depending on the characters chosen.

Chinese characters for Siew Fong

This spelling is common in Hakka and Cantonese romanization.

  • 秀芳

    elegant, beautiful; fragrant

    Hakka siu fông / Mandarin xiù fāng

  • 小芳

    small, little; fragrant

    Cantonese siu2 fong1 / Mandarin xiǎo fāng

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 Fong

Siew Fong is a Chinese girl's name spelled after Hakka or Cantonese pronunciation. In Hakka, 秀芳 reads siu fông (elegant; fragrant); in Cantonese, Siew matches 小 (siu2, little), since 秀 is sau3 there. Fong usually stands for 芳 (fragrant). According to JPN, it peaked in the 1970s with 804 baby girls. The actual meaning depends on the characters the family chose.

Gender♀ Girl
RomanizationHakka, Cantonese
PartsSiew + Fong
First letterChinese Names starting with S

Siew Fong in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
Girl: 795 · 8.4%
1970s
Girl: 804 · 8%
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 Fong 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: 芳 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  4. MDBG: 芳 · mdbg.net · meaning
  5. Wiktionary: 小 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  6. MDBG: 小 · mdbg.net · meaning

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