Chinese Names · Girl

Xin Yi name meaning

欣怡happy, joyous; cheerful, joyous
心怡heart, mind; cheerful, joyous
馨怡wafting fragrance; cheerful, joyous

Letters: 5
Syllables: 2
First letter: X
Romanization: Mandarin (pinyin)
Character options: 4
Category: Chinese Names
Gender: ♀ Girl

Chinese characters欣怡心怡馨怡欣儀

Peak 2000s: 18.5%
of the girl top-10 total

JPN Chinese table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)

Decade	girl
1940s	–
1950s	–
1960s	–
1970s	–
1980s	–
1990s	13.9%
2000s	18.5%
2010s	8.8%

Xin Yi is a Chinese girl's name in Mandarin pinyin, for example 欣怡, 'happy; cheerful', depending on the characters chosen.

Chinese characters for Xin Yi

This spelling is common in Mandarin (pinyin) romanization.

欣怡

happy, joyous; cheerful, joyous

Mandarin xīn yí
心怡

heart, mind; cheerful, joyous

Mandarin xīn yí
馨怡

wafting fragrance; cheerful, joyous

Mandarin xīn yí
欣儀

happy, joyous; ceremony; appearance

Mandarin xīn yí

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 Xin Yi

Xin Yi is a Chinese girl's name in Hanyu Pinyin, the Mandarin romanization. Xin can be 欣 (happy), 心 (heart) or 馨 (fragrance), while Yi usually stands for 怡 (cheerful) or 儀 (appearance). According to JPN, it peaked in the 2000s with 2,704 baby girls. The actual meaning depends on the characters the family chose.

Gender	♀ Girl
Romanization	Mandarin (pinyin)
Parts	Xin + Yi
First letter	Chinese Names starting with X

Xin Yi 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: not in the top 10
1990s: Girl: 1,399 · 13.9%
2000s: Girl: 2,704 · 18.5%
2010s: Girl: 966 · 8.8%

People registered with Xin Yi 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

Wiktionary: 欣 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
MDBG: 欣 · mdbg.net · meaning
Wiktionary: 怡 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
MDBG: 怡 · mdbg.net · meaning
Wiktionary: 心 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
MDBG: 心 · mdbg.net · meaning
Wiktionary: 馨 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
MDBG: 馨 · mdbg.net · meaning
Wiktionary: 儀 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
MDBG: 儀 · mdbg.net · meaning
MDBG: 欣 · mdbg.net · meaning
MDBG: 怡 · mdbg.net · meaning
MDBG: 心 · mdbg.net · meaning
MDBG: 馨 · mdbg.net · meaning

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Entry ID: mn00055 · Updated 2026-10-25 · How we research names · Report a mistake