The female giant panda born eight weeks ago at "Wakayama Adventure World," a zoological park in the western Japanese coastal prefecture of Wakayama was officially named Yuhin, meaning "Gentle Beach," local press reported on Friday.

The name was announced at a ceremony held in the zoo on Friday and the female panda was partially named after her mother "Rauhin, " with the wish to show gentleness like her mother in the zoological park which is facing Japan's Pacific coast.

The name Yuhin was selected from among 20,000 suggestions the park received from the public between Aug. 23 and Sept. 23. Zoo officials then narrowed the list of names and let a designated committee choose the cub's name, according to media reports.

Yuhin, weighing 2,705 grams as of Friday, is the third born to Rauhin and Eimei on Aug. 10 as the 13th cub of Giant Panda at the zoological park. Rauhin was also born at Wakayama Adventure World in 2000 as the cub born to mother Meimei from China.

Wakayama Adventure World has been the Japanese branch of Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in China since 1994.