Siu Sin
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Meaning
varies by characters; 善 kindness or 倩 loveliness are common
The story
Siu Sin is a Cantonese romanization, and the spelling cannot reveal a single meaning without the Chinese characters. Siu often represents a syllable such as 小, small or younger, but other characters can share the sound. Sin can likewise represent characters including 善, goodness, or 倩, graceful or lovely, among many possibilities. Tone and character are part of the name even when an English document records only the Latin letters. That is why this page presents examples rather than declaring one fixed translation. Siu Sin sits below the main US chart threshold, so there is no honest popularity trend to infer from national records. Its story is instead about what immigration paperwork can flatten: two neat English words may hide tones, visual meanings, and a family choice made in characters. The bearer and family know which Siu Sin this is.
How popular is Siu Sin around the world?
Siu Sin 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
Siu Sin 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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The Siu Sin deep dive
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