Entry № 6727 · Other origin

Meiyu Meiyu — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MAY-yoo /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Beautiful jade"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Ancient (Chinese)

A name that means "beautiful jade".

Meiyu is from the Chinese 美玉 (Měiyù — měi beautiful + yù jade — beautiful jade). Meiyu is one of the Chinese feminine names — central to traditional Chinese Confucian + Daoist heritage. 4700-2900 BCE + Liangzhu Culture jade c. Chinese feminine name reflecting Chinese jade-virtue heritage.

Beautiful jade.

The name in its native script.

美玉
Transliteration
Měiyù
Pronunciation
/ ˈmeɪ.juː /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Meiyu stands.

Meiyu 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.

Meiyus before her.

Real people

In fiction
Meiyu
Chinese beautiful jade + Confucius 11 jade virtues.

Names connected to Meiyu.

The number behind Meiyu.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Meiyu reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.