Entry № 5908 · Other origin

Lieu Lieu — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ LEE-yu /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Willow (Vietnamese + Liễu Hạnh Princess goddess)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (Vietnamese)

A name that means "willow (vietnamese + liễu hạnh princess goddess)".

Lieu is from the Vietnamese Liễu (柳 — willow). Liễu Hạnh Princess is one of the Four Immortals of Vietnamese folk religion + mother goddess of the Đạo Mẫu (Mother Goddess) religion of Vietnam — venerated at Phủ Dầy Temple Nam Định (UNESCO Intangible Heritage 2016 for the Practices Related to Vietnamese Beliefs in the Mother Goddesses of Three Realms).

Willow (Vietnamese + Liễu Hạnh Princess goddess).

The name in its native script.

Liễu
Transliteration
Liễu
Pronunciation
/ ˈliː.juː /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Lieu stands.

Lieu 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.

Lieus before her.

Real people

In fiction
Liễu Hạnh
Vietnamese Mother Goddess.

Names connected to Lieu.

The number behind Lieu.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Lieu reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.