Wei-Lien
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Wei-Lien is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Taiwan than in any other country.
- TWTaiwan≈1 in 159K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 6.5M
- CACanada≈1 in 17M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Taiwan (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 21 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 159K (inferred from the name graph)
≈150 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Taiwan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Weilien in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Wei-Lien counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TW Taiwan | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 159K | Wei-Lien | 6 |
| US United States | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 30M | Weilien | 21 |
| AU Australia | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 6.5M | Wei-Lien | 6 |
| CA Canada | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 17M | Weilien | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 45M | Weilien | 3 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- William Gauldb. 1861CAnot in their usual nameCanadian missionary in Taiwan
- Cai Weilianb. 1904CNnot in their usual nameChinese painter (1904-1939)
- Wei Lian Huangb. 1925CNnot in their usual namebotanist
- Lee Wai Limb. 1981CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong footballer (born 1981)
- William Chakb. 1985CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Is Wei-Lien a male or female name?
- Wei-Lien is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Wei-Lien have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 148 people named Wei-Lien in Taiwan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled Wei-Lien.
- How common is the name Wei-Lien?
- Mondonomo estimates about 150 people in Taiwan have Wei-Lien as their first given name, about 1 in 159 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wei-lienThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Wei-Lien”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.