Chinese Baby Names
May 4th, 2010 | 
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It is not uncommon for a Chinese couple to seek the services of an astrologer to find a suitable Chinese baby name for their new born child. It is believe that a suitable Chinese baby name can improve the luck of the child and give the child a more auspicious life path.
The methodologies for selecting a suitable Chinese baby vary between the different schools of thoughts but most of them are based on the principles of Yin and Yang as well as the Five Elements.
Chinese characters are made up of strokes. The odd number strokes are Yang while the even number strokes are Yin. For example a character composed on two strokes is Yin while another character composed on 3 or 5 stokes are Yang. The total number of strokes used in the name matters. Depending on the school, a certain range of strokes are auspicious while certain other ranges are not.
In most schools the date of time of the baby’s birth is also required to compute the Ba Zi or Eight Characters. From the eight characters, the astrologer can determine the useful element. This is usually but not necessary the element is that most lacking in the chart.
Let say that the element that is most lacking in the chart is water. In this case the astrologer will find a name that is associated with water. Obvious names would include water or ocean. Less obvious is winter which is also associated with water. For someone lacking in the wood element, suitable names include wood, forest, spring (a season of wood) or a name of a plant.
Another technique is to find a Chinese name that comes with the required element. Most Chinese characters are composed of basic characters. For example the character for the word ‘stove’ a made up of the character fire and earth. Therefore if you lack fire or earth you can call yourself stove! Not the best of example but I hope you understand the principle!
These are by no means the only methods. Let me give you an example. In the old days, where infant mortality rate is quite high, parent resort to giving their child very lowly names like Cow or Pig hoping the evil spirits will miss them hence allowing them to live to a ripe old age!
Now you now why someone not so good looking is called ‘Spring Beauty’ while an obvious beauty is called a ‘Pig’!
Henry Fong
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Know of any Chinese baby names?
My friend is having her first baby and she is looking for Chinese Baby names for both boys and girls.
Can you help?
write your name and scramble it..you got it!!!!!
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for a girl, Thi is pretty. its pronounced "Tee" its Asian but im not sure if its particularly chineese.
For a boy, not sure sorry!
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Throw a fork down the stairs and listen:
Ping, Ting Tang, Wing,Wong….
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boy: sheryan
girl: ling ling
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my chinese name is xiao wei. i think it’s a famous chinese singer.
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girls’ names: Shan Shan (coral)
Xiao Xiang (pronounce siow siang) (little fragrant)
boys’ names: qiang qiang (pronounce chiang chiang) (strong)
xiong (pronounce shiong) powerful
xing (lucky, can be use for both boys and girls)
In fact I have a book full of names and its meaning. Many names come with the same sound but different chinese character. I hope the above few names with special meanings will be suitable. Girls names are normally more gentle, like flowers (hua), pearls(zhu=chu)pig also have the same sound, so its not so nice.
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Book name is: Choosing Auspicious Chinese Names
Keitaro for the boy and yumi for the girl
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Boys:
Name Meaning
An Peaceful
Chen Great, Tremendous
Cheung Good Luck
Chun Spring
Dingbang Protector of the Country
Fai Beginning
Ho Good
Hu Tiger
Jin Gold
Jun Truthful
Kong Glorious
Kueng Universe
Liang Good
Manchu Pure
Po Sin Grandfather Elephant
Quon Bright
Shen Meditation
Shing Victory
Wang Hope, Wish
Wing Glory
Yong Courageous
Yu Universe
Girls:
Name Meaning
Bo Precious
Chu Hua Chrysanthemum
Hua Flower
Jun Truthful
Lee Plum
Lin Beautiful Jade
Ling Delicate
Meiying, Mei Beautiful Flower
Nuwa Mother Goddess
Ping Duckweed
Tao Peach
Ushi Ox
Xiu Mei Beautiful Plum
Yen Yearning
Yin Silver
These are beautiful names! I hope they help!
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For the girl she could name her Tao, it means long life
For the boy she could name him Shen, it means a deep thinker.
Some more can be
Male-Manchu (it means Pure)
Female-Mingmei(it means smart, beautiful)
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Jun-I….it means genius , I was told. My friend is naming her son that. It is pronounced…June Eye.
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Suang wong may be a good name,i think.
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girl:
Lee, means "poet"
Genji, means "gold"
DaXia, means "summer"
Lian or Lien
Park
Lixue
JiaLi
LiNa
boy:
Lee
Kong, means "bright"
Dewei
Park
Liang or Lian
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Well, I’m half Chinese and my great aunt gave both me and my sister Chinese names to use when we go to our language class >.< Mine is Mei Lan [pronounced May Lan] which translates to Beautiful Orchid… and my sister’s is Mei Lian [pronounched May Leee-aaan] and it translates to Beautiful Lotus. My mom’s is Yue Ai [pronounched yuh-ae ai] and it translates to Moon Love. I hope your friend fines a name, Chinese names are so pretty
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yeah, i can help!
just throw a pan down wooden (or any other non-carpeted) stairs and whatever sound it makes its a perfect chinese baby name!
examples: wing, wang, wong, ching, chang, chong, bing, bang, bong…etc…
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names of my chinese’s frens:
yee yong
liew thian nee
gok hwei
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for girl:
fei li
pao li
gong li
coco li
zhi yi
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try the following sites!
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http://www.babyhold.com/list/Chinese_Baby_Names/
http://www.findyourfate.com/numerology/babynames/chinesenames.html