Naming taboo

Naming taboo - cultural taboo against speaking or writing the given names of exalted persons in China and neighboring nations in the ancient Chinese cultural sphere. Article “Naming taboo” in English Wikipedia has 34.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 8 references and 9 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.88 points.

This article has the best quality in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2025 the article “Naming taboo” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Naming taboo”, its content was written by 119 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 535 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 543 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2096 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #8916 in August 2005
• Global: #2086 in August 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #240569 in March 2009
• Global: #58909 in October 2023

There are 18 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Namnetabu		79.8154
2	Chinese (zh) 避讳		67.2238
3	German (de) Namenstabu		37.6403
4	Vietnamese (vi) Húy kỵ		37.0997
5	Italian (it) Nomi cinesi proibiti		35.1928
6	English (en) Naming taboo		34.9182
7	Japanese (ja) 避諱		25.122
8	Korean (ko) 피휘		13.9603
9	Thai (th) ข้อห้ามเรื่องการระบุชื่อ		11.7334
10	Portuguese (pt) Tabu sobre os nomes na cultura chinesa		11.6392

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Naming taboo" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Naming taboo		574 268
2	Japanese (ja) 避諱		538 909
3	Chinese (zh) 避讳		303 707
4	Vietnamese (vi) Húy kỵ		92 632
5	Spanish (es) Tabú sobre los nombres en la cultura china		79 022
6	Korean (ko) 피휘		64 582
7	Russian (ru) Табу на имена		63 106
8	Italian (it) Nomi cinesi proibiti		49 828
9	Portuguese (pt) Tabu sobre os nomes na cultura chinesa		9 411
10	German (de) Namenstabu		8 275

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Naming taboo" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Naming taboo		3 486
2	Chinese (zh) 避讳		1 548
3	Japanese (ja) 避諱		1 514
4	Vietnamese (vi) Húy kỵ		420
5	Korean (ko) 피휘		210
6	Russian (ru) Табу на имена		205
7	Spanish (es) Tabú sobre los nombres en la cultura china		120
8	German (de) Namenstabu		108
9	Italian (it) Nomi cinesi proibiti		58
10	Portuguese (pt) Tabu sobre os nomes na cultura chinesa		22

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Naming taboo" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Naming taboo		119
2	Chinese (zh) 避讳		105
3	Japanese (ja) 避諱		69
4	Vietnamese (vi) Húy kỵ		41
5	Italian (it) Nomi cinesi proibiti		37
6	Korean (ko) 피휘		36
7	German (de) Namenstabu		19
8	Russian (ru) Табу на имена		19
9	Spanish (es) Tabú sobre los nombres en la cultura china		18
10	Swedish (sv) Namntabu		16

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Naming taboo" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Naming taboo		4
2	Chinese (zh) 避讳		2
3	Spanish (es) Tabú sobre los nombres en la cultura china		1
4	Korean (ko) 피휘		1
5	Catalan (ca) Tabú dels noms		0
6	German (de) Namenstabu		0
7	Persian (fa) تابوی نامگذاری		0
8	Hebrew (he) שמות אסורים		0
9	Italian (it) Nomi cinesi proibiti		0
10	Japanese (ja) 避諱		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Naming taboo" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Chinese (zh) 避讳		609
2	English (en) Naming taboo		543
3	Russian (ru) Табу на имена		297
4	Japanese (ja) 避諱		235
5	Korean (ko) 피휘		234
6	Vietnamese (vi) Húy kỵ		71
7	Spanish (es) Tabú sobre los nombres en la cultura china		22
8	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Namnetabu		18
9	German (de) Namenstabu		13
10	Italian (it) Nomi cinesi proibiti		13

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Tabú dels noms
de	German Namenstabu
en	English Naming taboo
es	Spanish Tabú sobre los nombres en la cultura china
fa	Persian تابوی نامگذاری
he	Hebrew שמות אסורים
it	Italian Nomi cinesi proibiti
ja	Japanese 避諱
ko	Korean 피휘
la	Latin Nomina vetita
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Namnetabu
no	Norwegian Kinesisk navnetabu
pt	Portuguese Tabu sobre os nomes na cultura chinesa
ru	Russian Табу на имена
sv	Swedish Namntabu
th	Thai ข้อห้ามเรื่องการระบุชื่อ
vi	Vietnamese Húy kỵ
zh	Chinese 避讳

Best Rank

English: #240569 03.2009

Global: #58909 10.2023

Best Rank

English: #8916 08.2005

Global: #2086 08.2005

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