Table 1. Descriptive characteristics of Chinese and English names in the study dataset.

	Descriptive characteristics	Count	%
Total n		771	100
Chinese surname
	1 Character	771	100
Chinese forename
	1 Character	17	2.3
	2 Characters	754	97.7
English forename
	Romanised only (e.g. Chin Hang)	647	83.9
	English only (e.g. Johnny)	27	3.5
	Both English and romanised (e.g. Chin Hang Johnny)	97	12.6
Language
	Cantonese	751	97.4
	Mandarin	20	2.6