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Wai Loon name meaning

  • 偉倫great, extraordinary; human relationships, ethics; order
  • 偉綸great, extraordinary; silk thread; cord
  • 偉麟great, extraordinary; qilin (auspicious mythical beast)
Letters
7
Syllables
1
First letter
W
Romanization
Cantonese
Character options
3
Category
Chinese Names
Gender
♂ Boy
  • Chinese characters偉倫偉綸偉麟
Peak 1980s: 7.3%
of the boy top-10 total
JPN Chinese table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadeboy
1940s–
1950s–
1960s–
1970s–
1980s7.3%
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–

Chinese Names: W

Wai Loon is a Chinese boy's name from Cantonese, for example 偉倫, 'great; order', depending on the characters chosen.

Chinese characters for Wai Loon

This spelling is common in Cantonese romanization.

  • 偉倫

    great, extraordinary; human relationships, ethics; order

    Cantonese wai5 leon4 / Mandarin wěi lún

  • 偉綸

    great, extraordinary; silk thread; cord

    Cantonese wai5 leon4 / Mandarin wěi lún

  • 偉麟

    great, extraordinary; qilin (auspicious mythical beast)

    Cantonese wai5 leon4 / Mandarin wěi lín

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 Wai Loon

Wai Loon is a Chinese boy's name spelled after Cantonese pronunciation. Wai usually stands for 偉 (wai5, great), while Loon is the Malaysian spelling of the sound leon4, as in 倫 (order), 綸 (silk thread) or 麟 (qilin). According to JPN, it peaked in the 1980s with 552 baby boys. The actual meaning depends on the characters the family chose.

Gender♂ Boy
RomanizationCantonese
PartsWai
First letterChinese Names starting with W

Wai Loon in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
not in the top 10
1970s
not in the top 10
1980s
Boy: 552 · 7.3%
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Wai Loon 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: 偉 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. MDBG: 偉 · mdbg.net · meaning
  3. Wiktionary: 倫 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  4. MDBG: 倫 · mdbg.net · meaning
  5. Wiktionary: 綸 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  6. MDBG: 綸 · mdbg.net · meaning
  7. Wiktionary: 麟 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  8. MDBG: 麟 · mdbg.net · meaning

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