Entry № 8139 · Chinese origin

Pingyang Pingyang — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ PING-yahng /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Chinese
Meaning
"Tang princess who led the Army of the Lady"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Chinese)

A name that means "tang princess who led the army of the lady".

Princess Pingyang (平陽, c. 600-623) — daughter of Li Yuan, founder of the Tang Dynasty — *personally raised and commanded the Niangzijun ("Army of the Lady") of 70,000 troops during the founding of the Tang. She held the strategic Niangzi Pass that bears her army's name — the only pass in the Great Wall named after a woman. Died young at 23; honored with a full military funeral by her father — the first time in Chinese history a princess received one*.

Featured in Tang dynastic histories.

Tang princess who commanded the Army of the Lady — 70,000 troops at Niangzi Pass.

The name in its native script.

平陽公主
Transliteration
Píngyáng Gōngzhǔ
Pronunciation
/ ˈpɪŋ.jɑːŋ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Pingyang stands.

Pingyang does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Pingyangs before her.

Real people
Princess Pingyang
Tang Dynasty warrior princess.
c. 600 – 623
In fiction
Pingyang
Tang dynastic histories.

Names connected to Pingyang.

The number behind Pingyang.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Pingyang reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.