Yat-Sen
Meaning
at ease or unrestrained; immortal (逸仙), the art name associated with Sun Yat-sen
The story
Yat-Sen in this collection is the Cantonese reading of 逸仙. 逸 suggests ease or freedom from restraint, and 仙 means an immortal. The characters do the real work: a romanized syllable can match more than one Chinese character, so Yat-Sen does not carry one fixed meaning when the writing is unknown. Hong Kong given names are normally chosen in characters and then represented in Latin letters for English-language settings. A two-character given name may be spaced, hyphenated, or joined; the hyphen here simply keeps the pair visible. Sun Yat-sen used 逸仙 as an art name, making this exact pair unusually recognizable beyond one family. The US curve sits almost entirely at the floor, with only a small recent trace. That says more about what American records capture than about the name's life in Cantonese-speaking families. Read in its documented form, Yat-Sen is a concise wish built from sound, script, and family choice.
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Yat-Sen has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
The Yat-Sen deep dive
Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Yat-Sen truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Yat-Sen fits with your family’s names and surname.
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