Surname · Chinese
凌
“to freeze; snow”
凌 is a surname from Proto-Sino-Tibetan. It is used in Chinese.
ChineseWritten in Chinese characters script.
Meaning & origin
What it means
凌 goes back to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-p(w)am, meaning “to freeze; snow.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-p(w)am (“to freeze; snow”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
凌’s family of names
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 19
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named 凌
- Ryo ToyamaJapanese association football playerborn 1994
- Ryo WadaJapanese association football playerborn 1995
- Ryo HasegawaJapanese association football playerborn 1999
- Ryo IshibashiJapanese actor (1956–)
- Ryō NemotoJapanese association football playerborn 2000
- Ryo NaritaJapanese model and actorborn 1993
- Ryo EndoJapanese association football playerborn 1998
- Ryo MatsudaJapanese actorborn 1991
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
If you love 凌, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.