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Siew Lan name meaning

  • 秀蘭elegant, beautiful; orchid
  • 小蘭small, little; orchid
Letters
7
Syllables
1
First letter
S
Romanization
Hokkien, Hakka
Character options
2
Category
Chinese Names
Gender
♀ Girl
  • Chinese characters秀蘭小蘭
Peak 1960s: 13.2%
of the girl top-10 total
JPN Chinese table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadegirl
1940s–
1950s8.5%
1960s13.2%
1970s–
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–

Chinese Names: S

Siew Lan is a Chinese girl's name from Hokkien, Hakka or Cantonese, for example 秀蘭, 'elegant; orchid', depending on the characters chosen.

Chinese characters for Siew Lan

This spelling is common in Hokkien, Hakka and Cantonese romanization.

  • 秀蘭

    elegant, beautiful; orchid

    Hokkien siù lân / Hakka siu làn / Mandarin xiù lán

  • 小蘭

    small, little; orchid

    Cantonese siu2 laan4 / Mandarin xiǎo lán

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 Lan

Siew Lan is a Chinese girl's name whose spelling fits the Hokkien and Hakka readings of 秀蘭 (elegant; orchid), or the Cantonese reading of 小蘭 (little; orchid). In Cantonese 秀 is sau3, so a Cantonese Siew usually stands for 小 (siu2). According to JPN, it peaked in the 1960s with 1,246 baby girls. The actual meaning depends on the characters the family chose.

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

Siew Lan in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
Girl: 1,087 · 8.5%
1960s
Girl: 1,246 · 13.2%
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 Lan 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: 蘭 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  4. MDBG: 蘭 · mdbg.net · meaning
  5. Wiktionary: 小 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  6. MDBG: 小 · mdbg.net · meaning

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