Entry № 8384 · Chinese origin

Qiu Qiu — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ CHYOH /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Chinese
Meaning
"Autumn (Chinese feminist revolutionary Qiu Jin)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Chinese)

A name that means "autumn (chinese feminist revolutionary qiu jin)".

Qiu (秋) is the Chinese word for "autumn." Qiu Jin (1875-1907) was the Chinese revolutionary poet and feminist — the first prominent advocate for women's rights in modern China. Captured leading an uprising against the Qing in 1907, she refused to confess, was beheaded at 32 — declaring "Autumn wind and autumn rain make me sad to death." "China's Joan of Arc."

Autumn. China's Joan of Arc.

The name in its native script.

Transliteration
Qiū
Pronunciation
/ tʃjoʊ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Qiu stands.

Qiu 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.

Qius before her.

Real people
Qiu Jin
Chinese revolutionary feminist.
1875 – 1907
In fiction
Qiu
Featured in The Woman Knight of Mirror Lake.
2011 film

Names connected to Qiu.

The number behind Qiu.

2

The Peacemaker

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