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Baby names with Mandarin variants

Australia's Chinese community has grown to over 1.4 million people — the largest non-Anglo ancestry by far. Cantonese settlement dates back to the 1850s gold rush; Mandarin-speaking migration from mainland China surged from the 1980s. Below: names with Mandarin character variants documented in Wikidata, sortable by Australian BDM popularity.

174 baby names registered in Australia have documented Mandarin variants (🇨🇳) on Wikidata — useful when a Chinese Australian community family wants a name that works in both English and Mandarin, or wants to know the Mandarin form of a common Aussie name.

Showing the top 60 by Australian BDM popularity — 37 boys' names, 23 girls'. This is not a list of names that originate in Mandarin culture; for those, browse by linguistic origin.

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