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Yoke Lan name meaning

  • 玉蘭jade; orchid
  • 毓蘭to nurture; orchid
Letters
7
First letter
Y
Romanization
Cantonese
Character options
2
Category
Chinese Names
Gender
♀ Girl
  • Chinese characters玉蘭毓蘭
Peak 1960s: 8%
of the girl top-10 total
JPN Chinese table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadegirl
1940s–
1950s–
1960s8%
1970s–
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–

Chinese Names: Y

Yoke Lan is a Chinese girl's name in Cantonese spelling; Yoke is commonly 玉 (jade) and Lan 蘭 (orchid), but the meaning depends on the characters.

Chinese characters for Yoke Lan

This spelling is common in Cantonese romanization.

  • 玉蘭

    jade; orchid

    Cantonese juk6 laan4 / Mandarin yù lán

  • 毓蘭

    to nurture; orchid

    Cantonese juk1 laan4 / Mandarin yù lán

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 Yoke Lan

Yoke Lan is a Cantonese romanization of a two-syllable girl's name. Yoke commonly stands for 玉 (juk6, jade) and can also be 毓 (juk1, to nurture), while Lan is usually 蘭 (laan4, orchid). According to JPN it peaked in the 1960s with 751 baby girls. The meaning depends on the characters the family chose.

Gender♀ Girl
RomanizationCantonese
First letterChinese Names starting with Y

Yoke Lan in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
Girl: 751 · 8%
1970s
not in the top 10
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 Yoke Lan 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: 玉 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. Wiktionary: 毓 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  3. Wiktionary: 蘭 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  4. MDBG: 玉 · mdbg.net · meaning
  5. MDBG: 毓 · mdbg.net · meaning
  6. MDBG: 蘭 · mdbg.net · meaning

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