Asian Female Name Generator

There is no single 'Asian' naming system, which is why a generic list so often sounds wrong. East Asian names put the family name first: Wang Xiuying, Kim Ji-woo and Nguyễn Thị Lan all start with the surname, and the given name is one or two syllables chosen for meaning. Japanese names are usually written given name first in English (Sakura Tanaka), Korean given names are hyphenated in romanization (Seo-yeon, Ha-eun), and Vietnamese women traditionally carry the middle name Thị before a given name like Lan, Hoa or Mai.

South and Southeast Asia work differently. Thai women have long given names and longer surnames (Siriporn Wongsawat) but go by a short nickname; Filipino names mix Spanish surnames with compound first names like Mary Grace and Jessa Mae; Indonesian names may be one word or several, sometimes with a Balinese birth-order marker such as Ni Made. Indian surnames signal region and community (Iyer, Reddy, Kaur, Banerjee), while Pakistani and Bangladeshi names draw on Arabic and Persian vocabulary such as Ayesha, Zainab and Nusrat.

This list is grouped by culture: Chinese (mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan), Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, Filipino, Indonesian, Malaysian, Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan, Nepali, Mongolian, Tibetan, Central Asian, Burmese, Khmer, Lao, Hmong and Uyghur, plus historical figures such as Hua Mulan, Yu Gwan-sun and Rani Lakshmibai.