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Siew Peng name meaning

  • 秀萍elegant, beautiful; duckweed
  • 秀平elegant, beautiful; level; calm, peaceful
  • 秀冰elegant, beautiful; ice
Letters
8
Syllables
2
First letter
S
Romanization
Hokkien, Teochew
Character options
3
Category
Chinese Names
Gender
♀ Girl
  • Chinese characters秀萍秀平秀冰
Peak 1970s: 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–
1960s–
1970s8.4%
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–

Chinese Names: S

Siew Peng is a Chinese girl's name from Hokkien or Teochew, for example 秀平, 'elegant; calm', depending on the characters chosen.

Chinese characters for Siew Peng

This spelling is common in Hokkien and Teochew romanization.

  • 秀萍

    elegant, beautiful; duckweed

    Hokkien siù phêng / Teochew siu3 pêng5 / Mandarin xiù píng

  • 秀平

    elegant, beautiful; level; calm, peaceful

    Hokkien siù pêng / Teochew siu3 pêng5 / Mandarin xiù píng

  • 秀冰

    elegant, beautiful; ice

    Hokkien siù peng / Mandarin xiù bīng

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 Peng

Siew Peng is a Chinese girl's name spelled after Hokkien or Teochew pronunciation. Siew usually stands for 秀 (elegant), while Peng can be 萍 (duckweed), 平 (calm, peaceful) or 冰 (ice, Hokkien reading peng). According to JPN, it peaked in the 1970s with 845 baby girls. The actual meaning depends on the characters the family chose.

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

Siew Peng in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
not in the top 10
1970s
Girl: 845 · 8.4%
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 Peng 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: 萍 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  4. MDBG: 萍 · mdbg.net · meaning
  5. Wiktionary: 平 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  6. MDBG: 平 · mdbg.net · meaning
  7. Wiktionary: 冰 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  8. MDBG: 冰 · mdbg.net · meaning

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