Native Chinese Name studio
An ID-card name is a surname from the Hundred Family Surnames plus one or two given-name characters a classmate could actually use. Native Name is built by a human, checked for native first impression, and delivered as a name-card PDF and share PNG in 1–3 days. It starts at $79.
Human-made
Written by a native Chinese speaker, not generated.
Native structure
A real surname plus a natural one- or two-character given name.
One revision
One given-name revision is included if the first impression snags.
Format sample of a public name — 陆克文 / Kevin Rudd — so you can see the $79 Native Name shape: name card PDF and share PNG. This is not a catalog to copy, and we did not name him.
Name card · PDF
陆克文
Lù Kèwén
Why this surname + given name
Surname 陆 sits in first position, from the Hundred Family Surnames — the public sound-map of Rudd, not classroom 凯. Given name 克文 is two ordinary characters a person can wear, not a phonetic dump of Kevin.
First impression · classmate test
At a glance this reads as a Chinese personal name. A classmate can say 克文 without stopping to decode a foreign filing. That is a reading of this public name, not a vote we ran.
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Share PNG · WeChat / IG crop
陆克文
Lù Kèwén
Email, English name, and a package. Optional: gender impression and where you will use the name. Longer form: /get.
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If you already have characters, paste them on Chinese Name Check. Keep, Kill, or Fix — free. This studio is the replacement door after a Kill.
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A real Chinese surname from the Hundred Family Surnames, plus one or two given-name characters a classmate could actually use. Not transliteration (迈克尔). Not a nickname (甜茶 / 甲亢哥 / 喜织郎). Not period-drama or web-novel costume (林诗韵 / 墨轩).
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A native speaker checks structure, gender impression, era, homophones, and whether the name works on a class list. One given-name revision is included. Read the five NFIP checks if you want the rubric in writing.
Waitlist only — no payment on this site, and names are not generated in the browser. Check is free on the sister site.
Audience voting is still being designed and is not available for purchase. You can read how it would work, without joining another sales path.
These are public, attested names — not a menu to copy. We will not mint you a 李雅琴. Empty cells stay empty. The roast is the pipeline (classroom transliteration, middle dots, news-wire spellings), not a private person’s face.
甜茶, 甲亢哥, 喜织郎 — natives know these as nicknames. They work as handles. They fail as the name on an ID, a diploma, or a classmate list. This studio makes an ID-card name: surname first, given name after, no middle dot, no caption.
大山 is on the proof wall because Mark Rowswell actually uses it, and because it is an honest exception (stage name, no surname). It is not a template we will copy onto you.
No. A native Chinese speaker writes the name. There is no catalog to click and no name minted on this page. Native Name takes 1–3 days. Audience vote ($199) is Pilot until the first vote runs.
Instant generators and calligraphy PDFs publicly list around $9.9–$9.99 (August 2026). That buys a file you download now — often a transliteration, a period-drama look, or a pretty spelling a native would not wear. $79 is 1–3 days of surname + given-name work, then a name card PDF and a share PNG. $199 is 3–7 days and adds an audience-vote report PDF from a Chinese audience on Douyin and Xiaohongshu, when a vote actually runs. We are not selling a $10 quiz, and we will not name a “best generator.”
Native Name ($79): after 1–3 days of studio work, you are emailed a 1-page name card PDF (the Chinese name large, pinyin with tones, 1–2 sentence structure note) and a share image PNG. One given-name revision if the first impression snags. Not a brush file, seal, or BaZi. Audience vote ($199): those files, plus a vote brief (2–3 candidate Chinese names posted to a ~200K Chinese audience on Douyin / Xiaohongshu — a sample votes; we do not claim 200,000 ballots) and an audience-vote report PDF with actual NFIP counts. That report does not exist yet. $199 is Pilot until the first vote runs (live panel n = 0); we will not email a fake poll. Posting the candidates needs a 3–7 day window.
A 1-page name card PDF and a 1:1 share PNG. The sample on this site uses the public attested name 陆克文 / Kevin Rudd so you can see the files — we did not name him, and it is not a catalog to copy.
Not on this page. There is no checkout yet. Displayed prices are the packages we will offer; submitting the form notes which one you want. We will not take money until we can actually do the work.
If you already have characters, check them free on Chinese Name Check (Keep / Kill / Fix). This studio is the replacement door after a Kill, or if you never had a Chinese name. Do not pay twice for a name you should have checked first.
Paste them on Chinese Name Check first. Keep / Kill / Fix is free. If the verdict is Kill, come back here for an ID-card name.
No. We do not default to period-drama or web-novel names (林诗韵 / 墨轩). The target is a name a classmate could wear without a footnote — a contemporary ID-card name, not a costume from a costume novel.
Those are nicknames — stage tags, internet handles. Fun, sticky, not this product. Native Chinese Name is for an ID-card name: a real Chinese surname plus a given name you could put on a card or a form without explaining.
No automated marketing emails. We’ll only contact you about your request and availability. Native Name files are emailed after the work — 1–3 days once a slot is accepted. We do not promise an email within a set number of hours.
Native Name: 1–3 days, then the PDF and PNG. Audience vote: 3–7 days, because posting 2–3 candidates to Douyin / Xiaohongshu needs that window. $199 is Pilot until the first vote runs (live panel n = 0).
凯文 is the dictionary row for Kevin. 陆克文 is a surname 陆 plus a given name 克文 — the public Chinese name of Kevin Rudd. Same English, opposite grammar. The studio reads structure, not whether the name “sounds foreign.”