Entry № 11497 · Chinese origin

Wei Wei — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ WAY /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Chinese
Meaning
"Greatness, rose, only"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Ancient (Chinese)

A name that means "greatness, rose, only".

Wei (薇 or 微) in Chinese has multiple meanings depending on character: "rose" or "climbing rose," "only," or as a unisex name, "greatness" or "prominent."

Wei is widely used in China.

Rose. The Chinese climbing flower.

The name in its native script.

薇
Transliteration
Wēi
Pronunciation
/ weɪ /
Root
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Grammatical form
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Where Wei stands.

Wei 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.

Weis before her.

Real people

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In fiction
Wei
Common in Chinese fiction.

Names connected to Wei.

The number behind Wei.

1

The Leader

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