Wikipedia says her birth name was Wen Suqin, Wen being the family name, does "Suqin" mean "seventh sister?"
In early 20th century it was still common for Chinese peasants to not even bother to name their daughters. Winston Churchill’s mother was Jennie Spencer, FDR’s Sara Delano, Mao Zedong’s “Seventh Sister”.
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I think it would be more appropriate to say she was generally known as seventh sister (Qimei). I don’t think she actually had six sisters though (although idk, possibly this was a nickname from school or from after her own mother’s remarriage)
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They'd be known by a feminized version of their family name and then "the older," "the younger" or "first, second" etc. I don't think Roman women had personal names until Christianity. But unlike the Romans, their predecessors the Etruscans always had personal names for women.
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