If you stop a random person on the street in China theres a pretty good chance their surname would be either Wang Li Zhang Liu or Chen.

Chinese male names in us. Liu means Kill Destroy Wei means Power Pomp High Extraordinary. Chinese last names are rooted in their countrys deep history. Chinese personal names are names used by those from Greater China and other parts of the Chinese-speaking world throughout East Asia and Southeast AsiaIn addition many names used in Korea and Vietnam are adaptations of Chinese names or have historical roots in Chinese due to Chinas cultural influence in the region historically.

According to legend the. A Chinese given name can also be any word or character. To help weve collated a list of 1000 strong classic and cute male names.

Many Japanese and Korean surnames also stem from Chinese surnames. In 1900 based on Liang research of the 120000 men in more than 20 Chinese communities in the United States he estimated that one out of every twenty. In the past children were given milk names when they were born and then public names.

Please note that popular names listed below are not necessarily consistently popular in every year. With so many good baby boy names to choose from were sure youll find the perfect one from those on our list. A girl might not even have a formal name just a nickname given by her parents in addition to her fathers surname said Zhang Rongli a law professor at China Womens University.

The names were derived from Chih-Hao Tsais list of 25 most common given names by yearI have added Pinyin and the spelling in the romanization system likely used by someone in Taiwan with that name bastardized Wade-GilesIn addition with the help of my wife I assigned names to the categories of male or female. 4 rows Among Chinese in Boston the most common three first names are Wei 134 Hong 0916 and. In the mid 1850s 70 to 150 Chinese were living in New York City and 11 of them married Irish women.

Taking English names also fits with various traditional Chinese naming practices. Wang means King Monarch Lei means Thunder Bud or Pile of Stones. 45 rows Chinese diplomat humanitarian.