Girl name origins & meanings
- Chinese : The graceful willow
How Popular Is The Name Lian
Family name origins & meanings
- Norwegian : habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads in Trøndelag, named with the definite plural form of Li 4.
- Chinese :
the main source of this surname is Lian
Cheng, a senior minister for the state of Qi, located in present-day
Shandong province. - Chinese :
the name Lian is
found in traditional accounts as long as 4500 years ago, part of the
name of a descendant of the legendary emperors Huang Di and Zhuan
Xu. Later descendants adopted Lian as their surname.