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Yee Ling name meaning

  • 怡玲cheerful, joyous; tinkling sound of jade
  • 儀玲ceremony; appearance; tinkling sound of jade
  • 綺玲woven silk; beautiful; tinkling sound of jade
Letters
7
Syllables
2
First letter
Y
Romanization
Cantonese
Character options
3
Category
Chinese Names
Gender
♀ Girl
  • Chinese characters怡玲儀玲綺玲
Peak 1980s: 9.1%
of the girl top-10 total
JPN Chinese table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadegirl
1940s–
1950s–
1960s–
1970s–
1980s9.1%
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–

Chinese Names: Y

Yee Ling is a Chinese girl's name from Cantonese, for example 怡玲, 'cheerful; tinkling jade', depending on the characters chosen.

Chinese characters for Yee Ling

This spelling is common in Cantonese romanization.

  • 怡玲

    cheerful, joyous; tinkling sound of jade

    Cantonese ji4 ling4 / Mandarin yí líng

  • 儀玲

    ceremony; appearance; tinkling sound of jade

    Cantonese ji4 ling4 / Mandarin yí líng

  • 綺玲

    woven silk; beautiful; tinkling sound of jade

    Cantonese ji2 ling4 / Mandarin qǐ 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 Yee Ling

Yee Ling is a Chinese girl's name spelled after Cantonese pronunciation. Yee can be 怡 (ji4, cheerful), 儀 (ji4, appearance) or 綺 (ji2, beautiful), while Ling usually stands for 玲 (ling4, tinkling jade). According to JPN, it peaked in the 1980s with 691 baby girls. The actual meaning depends on the characters the family chose.

Gender♀ Girl
RomanizationCantonese
PartsYee + Ling
First letterChinese Names starting with Y

Yee Ling 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
Girl: 691 · 9.1%
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Yee 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: 怡 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. MDBG: 怡 · mdbg.net · meaning
  3. Wiktionary: 玲 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  4. MDBG: 玲 · mdbg.net · meaning
  5. Wiktionary: 儀 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  6. MDBG: 儀 · mdbg.net · meaning
  7. Wiktionary: 綺 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  8. MDBG: 綺 · mdbg.net · meaning

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