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Long Zhiren -

Here's a thread for that oft-asked question...

Here's a list of common Chinese given names. If you want a Chinese name, you can do it the Chinese
way of choosing non-Chinese names, and pick one that looks good to you (throw darts?).
http://www.20000-names.com/female_chinese_names.htm
The website needs help with its lack of Chinese!

Here's a bunch of "accepted" transliterations. These are the way that they are found
transliterated into Chinese in the Bible (very popular source of names in the West), often based
on an original Greek or Hebrew pronunciation rather than a modern Western equivalent:

Abbey (Abigail) 亞 比 (亞 比 該)
Anna 亞 拿
Bernice 百 尼 (百 尼 基 氏)
Candace 干 大 (干 大 基)
Chloe 革 來
Claudia 革 老 底 亞
Debbie (Deborah) 底 波 (底 波 拉)
Diana (Artemis) 亞 底 米 神
Dorcas 多 加
Elizabeth 以 利 沙 伯
Esther 以 斯 帖
Eunice 友 尼 基
Eve (Ava) 夏 娃
Hannah 哈 拿
Joanna 約 亞 拿
Judith 猶 滴
Julia 猶 利 (猶 利 亞)
Leah 利 亞
Lois 羅 以
Lydia 呂 底 亞
Martha 馬 大
Mary 馬 利
Maria 馬 利 (馬 利 亞)
Michael 米 迦
Miriam 米 利 暗
Naomi 拿 俄 米
Paula 保 羅
Phebe 非 比
Priscilla 百 基 拉
Rachel 拉 結
Rebecca 利 百 加
Rhoda 羅 大
Ruth 路 得
Sarah 撒 拉
Susanna 並 蘇 撒 拿
Sylvia 西 拉
Tabitha 大 比 大


Aaron 亞 倫
Abel 亞 伯
Adam 亞 當
Amos 阿 摩 司
Andrew 安 得 烈
Bart (Bartholomew) 巴 多 (巴 多 羅 買)
Benjamin 便 雅 憫
Caleb 迦 勒
Christian 基 督
Crispin (Crispus) 基 利 司 布
Cyrus 古 列 (古 列 如 此)
Daniel (Dan) 但 以 理
Darius 大 利 烏
David 大 衛
Eli 以 利
Elijah 以 利 亞
Elisha 以 利 沙
Emanuel 以 馬 內 利
Ezekiel 以 西 結
Felix 腓 力 斯
Gabriel 加 百 列
Isaac 以 撒
Jack (Jacob/James) 雅 各
John (Johnathan) 約 翰 (約 拿 單)
Joseph 約 瑟
Josh (Joshua) 約 書 (約 書 亞)
Jude 猶 大
Justus 猶 士 都
Luke 路 加
Mark 馬 可
Matthew 馬 太
Moses 摩 西
Nathaniel 拿 但 業
Paul 保 羅
Peter 彼 得
Philip 腓 力
Saul 掃 羅
Silas 西 拉
Simon 西 門
Stephen 司 提 反
Thaddeus 達 太
Thomas 多 馬
Timothy 提 摩 太

Here's a few more:
Arnold 阿諾 (This is how Arnold Schwarzeneggar (阿諾 舒華辛力加) gets his name done in
Chinese media)
Gregory 哥萊哥萊 (This is how Gregory Peck (哥萊哥萊 畢克) gets his name done in Chinese
media.)
Helga (or Olga) 赫果 (based on how the German island Helgoland is transliterated in Chinese
geography.)



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pattifranklin -

Thanks for such a useful resource!










Long Zhiren -

You know what's funny?
I have three male cousins in Taiwan. They each picked Western names. We got two Andrews and one
Bruce. They didn't make it down the list very far!
The females picked out Jenny and Susan, thus proving again that men are lazier?
My cousins on the mainland haven't bothered picking out Western names.










Lu -

I once read about this TW guy named Aaron. Why Aaron? He opened the name book and picked the first
name in it :-)












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