Entry № 6653 · Other origin

Mayu Mayu — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MAH-yoo /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"River (Quechua + Mayu Japanese unisex)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Ancient (Quechua-Japanese)

A name that means "river (quechua + mayu japanese unisex)".

Mayu is from the Quechua mayu — river + Japanese 真結 (Mayu — true bond / cocoon). Mayu is one of the Quechua feminine names — central to traditional Inca + Andean Indigenous heritage.

River (Quechua + Mayu Japanese unisex).

The name in its native script.

Mayu / 真結
Transliteration
Mayu
Pronunciation
/ ˈmɑː.juː /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Mayu stands.

Mayu 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.

Mayus before her.

Real people
Mayu Watanabe
Japanese AKB48 + Sōsenkyo general election #1 in 2014.
born 1994
In fiction
Mayu
Quechua river.

Names connected to Mayu.

The number behind Mayu.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Mayu reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.