Kwok-Wing
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Meaning
national glory (國榮); famously borne by Leslie Cheung, one of HK cinema's most iconic stars, whose given name this was
The story
Kwok-Wing reads in this collection as national glory, 國榮, and one bearer carried those characters into Hong Kong legend. Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing, regarded as one of the founding fathers of Cantopop for defining the genre in the eighties, broke through with the hit single Monica and became one of the best-selling musical acts in Hong Kong history. In 1993 he starred as a cross-dressing Peking opera actor in Farewell My Concubine, the first Chinese film to win the Palme d'Or at Cannes. He died in April 2003; years later a CNN poll still voted him the third most iconic musician of all time, after Michael Jackson and The Beatles. In American records the name is absent, as romanized Cantonese pairs usually are. In Hong Kong, the two characters still mean exactly what they say.
How popular is Kwok-Wing around the world?
Kwok-Wing does not appear in US Social Security baby-name records, which list only names given to at least five babies in a year. There is no popularity curve to chart: a genuinely rare pick.
United States
under 5 a year
Kwok-Wing does not appear in US Social Security baby-name records, which list only names given to at least five babies in a year. There is no popularity curve to chart: a genuinely rare pick.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
Not on the record in Spain, Mexico City, Argentina, Puerto Rico, England and Wales, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland and Poland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
Not on the Chile record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 5 registrations in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the Montevideo record for 1940 to 2011: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the South Australia record for 1944 to 2017: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the Austria record for 1984 to 2025: Statistik Austria publishes every first name down to a single birth, so this name was not given there in those years (before 2010 the record covers babies with Austrian citizenship only). Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.
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