Chi-Ming

Meaning

aspiration and brightness (志明); Hong Kong's beloved everyman name, lead character of the film Love in a Puff (志明與春嬌)

Popularity, 1890–2024

Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Chi-Ming has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.

Names that fit alongside Chi-Ming

Ka-Ming Siu-Ming Kwok-Wing Wai-Man Tai-Man Chun-Wah

The Chi-Ming deep dive

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Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Chi-Ming truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Chi-Ming fits with your family’s names and surname.

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