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Siew Lee name meaning

  • 秀麗elegant, beautiful; beautiful, lovely
  • 秀莉elegant, beautiful; jasmine (in 茉莉); used in girls' names
  • 小莉small, little; jasmine (in 茉莉); used in girls' names
Letters
7
Syllables
2
First letter
S
Romanization
Hokkien, Teochew
Character options
3
Category
Chinese Names
Gender
♀ Girl
  • Chinese characters秀麗秀莉小莉
Peak 1970s: 8.8%
of the girl top-10 total
JPN Chinese table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadegirl
1940s–
1950s–
1960s–
1970s8.8%
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–

Chinese Names: S

Siew Lee is a Chinese girl's name from Hokkien or Teochew, for example 秀麗, 'elegant; beautiful', depending on the characters chosen.

Chinese characters for Siew Lee

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

  • 秀麗

    elegant, beautiful; beautiful, lovely

    Hokkien siù lē / Teochew siu3 li6 / Mandarin xiù lì

  • 秀莉

    elegant, beautiful; jasmine (in 茉莉); used in girls' names

    Hokkien siù lī / Teochew siu3 li6 / Mandarin xiù lì

  • 小莉

    small, little; jasmine (in 茉莉); used in girls' names

    Cantonese siu2 lei6 / Mandarin xiǎo lì

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 Lee

Siew Lee is a Chinese girl's name spelled after the Hokkien or Teochew readings of 秀麗 (elegant; beautiful) and 秀莉, Hokkien siù lē and siù lī. In Cantonese 秀 is sau3 and 麗 is lai6, so a Cantonese Siew Lee fits 小莉 (siu2 lei6) better. According to JPN, it peaked in the 1970s with 882 baby girls. The actual meaning depends on the characters the family chose.

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

Siew Lee in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
not in the top 10
1970s
Girl: 882 · 8.8%
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 Lee 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: 麗 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  4. MDBG: 麗 · mdbg.net · meaning
  5. Wiktionary: 莉 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  6. MDBG: 莉 · mdbg.net · meaning
  7. Wiktionary: 小 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  8. MDBG: 小 · mdbg.net · meaning

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