Kieu means graceful and charming — lovely in form and bearing, famed from the classic Tale of Kieu. It carries beauty and poise.
Kieu does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kieu reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.