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韦 Wei — a rarer surname

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Where the surname comes from

A surname meaning 'leather', with a long history among northern families.

What the character means

Supple leather; diligent study

Why it scores this way

Reads the way it looks for an English speaker — no sounds English doesn't have.

Outside the top 100 — distinctive, but some people will ask you to repeat or write it.

4 strokes — one of the simpler surnames to write and sign.

People who carried this name

• Wei Zheng — —
• Wei Yingwu — Tang dynasty poet known for landscape and pastoral verse, author of 'West Stream at Chuzhou'.
• Wei Zhuang — Five Dynasties poet and leading figure of the Huajian ci school, famous for lyrical and sentimental verses.

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