Chinese Girl Names

Explore Chinese given names written in Latin letters. The original characters and tones determine the meaning; a spelling alone can represent several names. Many are used for both boys and girls. The popularity figures describe U.S. birth records.

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History
1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled
Babies 2025 · rank5-year rank movementPeak year

Recorded in Chinese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1880.

—Unranked
—
1947

Recorded in Chinese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1946.

36#3,982
Up 32 rank positions in five years
2010

Recorded in Chinese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1957.

42#3,620
Down 94 rank positions in five years
2017

Recorded in Chinese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1917.

7#12,632
Down 941 rank positions in five years
1952

Recorded in Chinese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1977.

—Unranked
—
1990

Recorded in Chinese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1974.

—Unranked
—
1991

Recorded in Chinese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1986.

19#6,255
Up 3,765 rank positions in five years
2010

Recorded in Chinese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1953.

—Unranked
—
1993

Recorded in Chinese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1999.

—Unranked
—
2005

Recorded in Chinese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1977.

—Unranked
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1981

Recorded in Chinese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1971.

—Unranked
—
2000

Recorded in Chinese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1983.

—Unranked
—
2000

Recorded in Chinese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1982.

—Unranked
—
2007

Recorded in Chinese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1984.

—Unranked
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1988

Recorded in Chinese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1983.

—Unranked
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1985

Recorded in Chinese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1999.

—Unranked
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2001

Recorded in Chinese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1981.

—Unranked
—
1981

Recorded in Chinese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1942.

—Unranked
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1947

Recorded in Chinese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2017.

—Unranked
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2017

Recorded in Chinese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2004.

—Unranked
—
2007

Recorded in Chinese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1976.

—Unranked
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1976

Chinese-rooted name; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1980.

—Unranked
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1980

Recorded in Chinese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1990.

—Unranked
—
1990

Recorded in Chinese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1982.

—Unranked
—
1982

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Sources & methodology

Meaning summaries use Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and referenced name histories. Each name’s detail page includes its sources.

Membership on this list is editorial — we chose names that genuinely fit the theme. Every number is from official birth data: "—" means the name had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, which makes it a genuinely rare pick today, not an invalid one. The dot marks whether the stats shown are for the girls' or boys' use of the name.

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