Tak-Wah
Meaning
virtuous splendor (德華); the Cantonese given name of Andy Lau Tak-wah of the Four Heavenly Kings, whose Andy already sits in this collection. The two entries are one man, which is exactly how the Hong Kong dual-name convention works
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Tak-Wah has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
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