No matter it is Hong Kong, China or Taiwan, Chinese people seems to have very weird English names.
Mainland Chinese, in particular, have very weird English names. Sometimes, a lot of people think that they get an English name just the the sake of having it, or perhaps the country is being invaded by western culture because of its booming economy and the increasing foreigner influx.
Here, I want to share with you some very ridiculous English names of Chinese people from Hong Kong, China and Taiwan.
My all-time favorite is Vitamin Chen. He’s a very charming dude. He must be a healthy freak (i.e. Vitamin C) as well.
Here’s my friends’ experience:
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Dawei: I knew two twin sisters in Hong Kong called Kinetic and Energy.
Butler: I interviewed a girl in Shanghai recently and her name was Station.
Stephen: “I met a Water Chan before.”
Vivien: Not just Mainland Chinese. There are Wasabi, Nitrogen, Apple, Ginger, Salad… I met them in Hong Kong!
Fili: There was a Taiwanese girl I met once with a last name Kao (“高” in Taiwanese Pinyin, it means “Tall”) who chose the English name Kinky. Kinky Kao, perfect.
Stephane: Hong Kong people have first name such as Porky or Leslie. I also know a Nori Chan, probably makes all the Japanese girls laugh when he says his name.
Tyler: Best one I have ever heard was a Singapore girl by the name of Cream Soon.
Florence: I have a student in my class wanting to make his name Chris, but as there are 2 other Chris’ in that class, we decided to call him Christmas instead!
VK: Silence works at the Subway in downtown.
Munjee: I know a guy named Dicky Hung. I’m gonna use his name when I meet people in a bar.
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What are the weird English names of Chinese people you’ve seen?
Categories: Language
Tags: Weird Names
Absurdly Translated Signs in “Chinglish” 
Confusion about Cantonese, Mandarin, Traditional and Simplified Chinese 
My favourite is Failure…
Haha. So if people would ask, ‘How’s the project going, Failure?”
All real and non-phonetic names from my phonebook.
- Algo
- Cani
- Cheneil
- Joke
- Kenix
- King
- Koey
- Kodi
- Mansfield
- Miffy
- Pinky
- Ricco
- Sancia
- Santos
- Samboov
- Slinky
- Sonki
- Steed
- Sunny
- Swindy
- Yamy
- Yuki
- Zenith
Thanks for sharing, Wai Shing. I like Joke the most.
Hill
Sugar
Kaling
Luna
Strawberry
Cocoa
Godjer
Haha. These are good ones.
i have some friends called
chili
data
happy
joker
xabi
daro
Happy Data Joker.
contacts from the office
purple
morning
keen
“Hi, what’s your name?” “Morning.”
LOL… thanks for sharing Ryan
I know a guy in Taiwan named “Helicopter Chung”, Can you beat this?
In addition, saw these first names: Rainman, Good, Cloud, Bird, Command, Tough, Mask, Honda.
Not sure, what caused these people to accept such names, but I think they will hardly be big business men in Europe. If I imagine someone calling and saying: “Hello, my name is Helicopter Chung..” I would be like: Excuse me?
LOL. I couldn’t keep laughing when I saw “Helicopter Chung”. It’s a 4-syllable first name!
Not just China. In Korea I found the weirdest names. Had a student called Mikhail Gorbachev. No joke.
Wow…maybe your student is a remote family member of the former leader?
Refrigerator – actually was given that name by a fellow teacher because he had the ability to use the word in any sentence he spoke…correctly.
Semen – I believe it started out as “Simon” but was mispronounced so often that eventually the spelling changed too.
And my recent favourite – H. That’s it, just H. He’s like 7 and he’s already too cool for a full name!
They are funny ones. Does it happen in China or other cities in Asia? I think that a lot of people just use names that they think look cool but not really care about the meaning.
Met a Yoyo Yin last night.
I played yoyo all the time when I was small.
HJ,
Rain,
Snow,
Action (a sales guy),
Eureka,
Eubisia (no idea how she googled that)
Tank, (i kid you not and he was rather skinny)
Thanks for sharing, AJ! I like Action, must be an aggressive sales
I had students named :
Spicegas , Hometown, Hitler.
The best was a pair of girls who always sat beside eachother, one was named Pussy the other one was named Monster. They always talked so I often had to say “Pussy Monster!” to make them stop.
Hahahahahahahahahaha, I almost spilled out my coffee. Thanks for sharing!
Sunshine (a guy)
Handsome
Fabio
Oh… he would say, “Hi, I’m Handsome”.
I have these from my LinkedIn connections (all real people):
* Friendly
* Johnothan
* Koboer
* Viral
* Wellwin
OMG. Viral? Hahahahahaha.
i know someone named cherry chen. she recently made a facebook, and when she realized how many cherry chens are on the internet, her reaction was “maybe i should have chosen another name….”
I know a girl named Cherry too, pretty common
I used Stone as my English name, simply because, in my Chinese name, there is a character which means “stone”. I know Stone is often used as last name, do u guys think it’s weird for first name though?
My Chinese co-worker was also named Stone. It’s a unique name…it’s not too weird.
Some of my other co-workers in Shenzhen had names like “Gloomy,” “Fantasy,” and “Lust” – now those were weird. I would say those are more like names for the Seven Dwarfs.
The weirdest China English name I ever encountered was “Icmi”.
Yes, you read that right.
Having said that, my first try at coming up with a Chinese name for myself backfired. I thought it was a cool name, but it was really weird in Chinese. I shared the whole story here…http://www.my-new-chinese-love.com/chinese-name.html
So “Stone” is actually a reasonable name, all things considered.
If your Chinese name contains a character that means “stone”, then naming yourself as “Stone” in English is fine, at least the reason is quite fair.
My English name is Peter, which means ‘a large stone’… so my Chinese name is 大石头 (Big Stone)… and subsequently, also the name of my company (Big Stone Group) and charity foundation (Big Stone Foundation).
Peter means ‘a large stone’? I didn’t know…! But yeah, that’s really cool, you got the whole group named Big Stone
I know a girl who couldn’t choose between Daisy and Mary, so she called herself Dairy.
Ahahahahahahashahaha. Thanks for sharing Capn.
I had a student
first name: Bill-Gates-Rockafeller
surname: Wang
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A female student named ‘Hills’
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And the strangest I’ve had: a boy named ‘Earwig’
From Taiwan:
MacGyver Hsu
Fish Liao
Teacher Chair (the art teacher at our school)
Manpower Li
Chemical Wu
Handsome Li
Student names:
Oreo
Chubby
Vinky
Kerwin (apparently this sounds like the chinese name for Optimus Prime)
I like Manpower and Chemical!
Toto To
Money (really tempted to ask if they were related to Lil Wayne’s young money record label)
Promise (see this person better think twice when they promise people things)
Wealthee
King
-just a few, enjoy
Thanks for sharing J.
You know what, “Toto To” sounds like you/re spitting.
Some of them are Chinese names translated to English literally =_=
My name is Chen Yi, in English it means “(Bird) Wings Chen”. It doesn’t make sense XD
Yeah. Direct translation often just doesn’t make sense. That’s a cool name, though!
I met two people called Echo and someone called Quincy
Also the following first names… (names of top schools in the US) lol
Stanford
Yale
Wharton
I think there also someone called Moony lol
Thanks for sharing Henry. Good incentives for them to get into good universities and a good laugh for their friends.
These are hilarious! Names like these were the inspiration for our website, http://www.namewalla.com. Jin, you and the other posters can submit these crazy names for our Rogues Gallery. All you teachers can send your students to the site so they can learn how to choose a name that won’t make people laugh, or at least learn the dangers of being too “creative.” Best regards!
Thanks for your comment, Cassie. Lovely website of yours! The people who read my blog is my readers, not students, but I suppose everyone learns, so yes we’re all students. I hope my readers would find your website useful.
Highway He is one of the odder I’ve seen.
But the best and most appropriate: Ms Summer Sun, a real estate agent. Perfectly chosen.
Thanks for sharing, Roffles! I love the name Summer Sun, it’s very positive and it makes me smile.
its funny but for some reason it works!!! Maybe some parents didn’t kno
That’s hilarious!
haven’t heard those name around me
but i did see a girl mentioned she was a virg1n(virgo) in her info box
kind of speechless
My relative is called New Year (欣年). No joke, that is actually his name…
That’s a very nice name indeed.