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
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Grammatical form
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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

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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.