Wai-Ling

Meaning

wise jade (慧玲); a signature name of the postwar generation, the aunties and grandmothers of today's Cantonese America

Popularity, 1890–2024

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

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