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Siew Lian name meaning

  • 秀蓮elegant, beautiful; lotus
  • 秀漣elegant, beautiful; ripple
Letters
8
Syllables
2
First letter
S
Romanization
Hokkien
Character options
2
Category
Chinese Names
Gender
♀ Girl
  • Chinese characters秀蓮秀漣
Peak 1960s: 8%
of the girl top-10 total
JPN Chinese table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadegirl
1940s–
1950s–
1960s8%
1970s–
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–

Chinese Names: S

Siew Lian is a Chinese girl's name from Hokkien, for example 秀蓮, 'elegant; lotus', depending on the characters chosen.

Chinese characters for Siew Lian

This spelling is common in Hokkien romanization.

  • 秀蓮

    elegant, beautiful; lotus

    Hokkien siù liân / Mandarin xiù lián

  • 秀漣

    elegant, beautiful; ripple

    Hokkien siù liân / Mandarin xiù lián

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 Lian

Siew Lian is a Chinese girl's name spelled after Hokkien pronunciation. Siew stands for 秀 (siù, elegant) and Lian usually for 蓮 (liân, lotus); 漣 (ripple) is also read liân. According to JPN, it peaked in the 1960s with 758 baby girls. The actual meaning depends on the characters the family chose.

Gender♀ Girl
RomanizationHokkien
PartsSiew + Lian
First letterChinese Names starting with S

Siew Lian in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
Girl: 758 · 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 Lian 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: 蓮 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  4. MDBG: 蓮 · mdbg.net · meaning
  5. Wiktionary: 漣 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  6. MDBG: 漣 · mdbg.net · meaning

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