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Siew Ling name meaning

  • 秀玲elegant, beautiful; tinkling sound of jade
  • 小玲small, little; tinkling sound of jade
  • 秀靈elegant, beautiful; spirit; quick, keen
Letters
8
Syllables
2
First letter
S
Romanization
Hokkien, Teochew
Character options
4
Category
Chinese Names
Gender
♀ Girl
  • Chinese characters秀玲小玲秀靈秀鈴
Peak 1980s: 15.1%
of the girl top-10 total
JPN Chinese table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadegirl
1940s–
1950s–
1960s–
1970s12.9%
1980s15.1%
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–

Chinese Names: S

Siew Ling is a Chinese girl's name from Hokkien, Teochew or Cantonese, for example 秀玲, 'elegant; tinkling jade', depending on the characters chosen.

Chinese characters for Siew Ling

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

  • 秀玲

    elegant, beautiful; tinkling sound of jade

    Hokkien siù lêng / Teochew siu3 lêng5 / Mandarin xiù líng

  • 小玲

    small, little; tinkling sound of jade

    Cantonese siu2 ling4 / Mandarin xiǎo líng

  • 秀靈

    elegant, beautiful; spirit; quick, keen

    Hokkien siù lêng / Teochew siu3 lêng5 / Mandarin xiù líng

  • 秀鈴

    elegant, beautiful; bell

    Hokkien siù lêng / Teochew siu3 lêng1 / Mandarin xiù líng

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 Ling

Siew Ling is a Chinese girl's name whose spelling fits the Hokkien or Teochew readings of 秀玲 (elegant; tinkling jade), 秀靈 and 秀鈴, and the Cantonese reading of 小玲 (siu2 ling4). In Cantonese 秀 is sau3, so a Cantonese Siew usually stands for 小. According to JPN, it peaked in the 1970s with 1,300 baby girls. The actual meaning depends on the characters the family chose.

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

Siew Ling in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
not in the top 10
1970s
Girl: 1,300 · 12.9%
1980s
Girl: 1,138 · 15.1%
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Siew Ling 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: 玲 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  4. MDBG: 玲 · mdbg.net · meaning
  5. Wiktionary: 小 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  6. MDBG: 小 · mdbg.net · meaning
  7. Wiktionary: 靈 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  8. MDBG: 靈 · mdbg.net · meaning
  9. Wiktionary: 鈴 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  10. MDBG: 鈴 · mdbg.net · meaning

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