Lien
Origin
Vietnamese
Syllables
1
Peak era
1970s
Today
▬ Steady
Meaning
lotus; written Liên. A flower name of the grandmother generation, alongside Mai (apricot blossom) and Lan (orchid); the lotus rising clean out of the mud carries Buddhist weight that made it a staple of 20th-century girls' naming
Popularity, 1890–2024
1890speak 1970s2020s
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Lien peaked in the 1970s.
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