Asian names

1,877 names across 27 traditions. Every name links to its own page: meaning, origin and, where the records allow it, a century of popularity.

East Asia, South Asia and Southeast Asia on one page, together with the Asian American communities that carry those names into US records. Each tradition keeps its own collection below, with the meaning and origin of every name and a page for each one. Where a name shows up in Social Security records, its page charts the curve; where it does not, the page says so rather than inventing one.

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