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.

Transliteration
Wēi
Pronunciation
/ weɪ /
Root
Grammatical form

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

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.