East Asian names
524 names across 4 traditions. Every name links to its own page: meaning, origin and, where the records allow it, a century of popularity.
Part ofAsian names
Chinese, Cantonese, Japanese and Korean names, each tradition in its own collection with the characters or syllables that carry the meaning. Most of these names have no Social Security curve to chart, because those records only publish spellings given to five or more babies a year; the pages say so plainly instead of drawing one.
Most given in the United States, 2020 to 2025
- 1Chloe37,608 births
- 2Roman30,425 births
- 3Kai28,730 births
- 4Aaron27,412 births
- 5Naomi26,676 births
- 6Nicholas21,007 births
- 7Vivian17,352 births
- 8Juan15,045 births
- 9Josie15,019 births
- 10Leon14,123 births
- 11Cecilia12,773 births
- 12Miriam7,334 births
- 13Maggie6,366 births
- 14Fiona5,251 births
- 15Marco4,991 births
- 16Andy4,030 births
- 17Bo3,944 births
- 18Rio3,564 births
- 19Moses3,485 births
- 20Reina2,973 births
The names on this page that appear in Social Security records, ranked by births in 2020 to 2025. Names the records do not publish (spellings given to fewer than five babies a year) cannot appear here.
The collections
Every collection below is one tradition, with the meaning and origin of each name.
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