Chinese Female Name Generator

A Chinese female name is written family name first: in Wang Fang, Wang is the surname and Fang the given name. Surnames are almost always one syllable and drawn from a small pool; Wang, Li, Zhang, Liu and Chen alone cover roughly a third of the country, and the two-syllable compound surnames like Ouyang or Shangguan are rare and faintly aristocratic. The given name is one or two characters chosen for meaning, and it is the part that signals both gender and era.

Women's given names traditionally favor characters for flowers, beauty, grace and virtue: Fang (fragrant), Li (beautiful), Mei (plum), Lan (orchid), Xiu (elegant), Ying (jade-like), Ting (graceful), Jing (quiet). Generation matters. Women born in the 1950s and 60s often carry two-character names like Xiuying, Guilan or Shufen; women born in the 1980s have many one-character names (Wang Jing, Li Juan, Zhang Yan) or doubled pet forms like Lili and Tingting; girls born after 2000 tend toward soft, literary two-character names such as Zihan, Yinuo, Xinyi, Ruoxi, Yutong and Mengyao.

This list covers all three generations, plus famous women from history and classic literature such as Wu Zetian, Li Qingzhao, Hua Mulan and Lin Daiyu. Everything is written in Hanyu Pinyin without tone marks, the form used in passports, subtitles and game credits.