Měi

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Měi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Hong Kong it is the 14th most common given name. Recorded meaning: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

rarermore common
  • HKHong Kong≈1 in 423(inferred from the name graph)
  • TWTaiwan≈1 in 526
  • MYMalaysia≈1 in 653

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Měi itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈440,000 people, est.

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
342 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 423 (inferred from the name graph)

Hong Kong, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MěiLatin(measured from records)
МейCyrillic(measured from records)
메이Hangul(measured from records)

5 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Mei in US United States, MY Malaysia, HK Hong Kong and 4 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Sources 8

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wiktionary
  • Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)
  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Měi counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Měi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈440,000 est.≈1 in 3.2K—Mei138
MY Malaysia#69≈50,000 est.≈1 in 6531.5KMei101
TW Taiwan#965≈45,000 est.≈1 in 526—Mei136
US United States—25,052as Mae1 in 13K103KMei342
HK Hong Kong#14≈17,000 est.≈1 in 423—Mei101
NO Norway—8,217as May1 in 66518K—14
SG Singapore#170≈3,200 est.≈1 in 1.9K—Mei106
ES Spain—5781 in 87K578Mei58

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; data.gov.my — Name Popularity Dashboard (JPN, by decade and ethnicity); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

500100015002000Liu Mei, b. 962Liu Mei, b. 1547Vanessa-Mae, b. 1978
  • Liu Meib. 962CN(died 1021)
  • Liu Meib. 1547CNpolitician
  • Vanessa-Maeb. 1978SGnot in their usual nameBritish violinist
  • Hu MeiMing dynasty person CBDB = 66272
  • Wu MeiMing dynasty person CBDB=267148
  • Li MeiMing dynasty person CBDB = 230528
  • Li MeiMing dynasty person CBDB = 299590
  • Wang MeiMing dynasty person CBDB = 331574
  • Chen MeiMing dynasty person CBDB = 124714
  • Wang MeiMing dynasty person CBDB = 236748

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Měi under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Měi mean, and where does it come from?
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 6 other sources.
Is Měi a male or female name?
Měi is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Měi have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 437 thousand people named Měi in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mei.
How common is the name Měi?
In Spain, the national register counted 578 people named Měi, about 1 in 87 thousand residents.
How common is Měi compared with other names?
In Hong Kong, Měi is the 14th most common given name of 23,276 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Měi” — the 14th most common given name in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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