Gender Masculine & Feminine
Usage Chinese
Scripts 洪元, 洪沅, 宏源, 鴻源, 虹渊, etc.(Chinese) 洪元, 洪沅, 宏源, 鴻源, 虹淵, etc.(Traditional Chinese)
Meaning & History
From Chinese 洪 (hóng) meaning "flood, deluge, great, vast", 宏 (hóng) meaning "wide, spacious, great, vast", 鸿 (hóng) meaning "wild swan, great, vast" or 虹 (hóng) meaning "rainbow" combined with 元 (yuán) meaning "first, origin", 沅 (yuán) referring to the Yuan River in Hunan province, 源 (yuán) meaning "source, origin", or 渊 (yuān) meaning "deep, profound, abyss". Other character combinations can form this name as well.