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Mei

Usage of Mei in different languages / cultures

The list below was created by gathering names from various sources for different languages, and then matching Mei against each list of names.

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Note: In some cases it is possible for the check mark to be missing even if Mei is used in a particular country, as almost no source name list has 100% coverage.

Featured in baby name books

Mei is Chinese for “plum” or “beautiful,” and in Hawaiian it means “great.” Mei is also read as “virtuous and beautiful” or “forever enchanting” in Chinese, and “great one” in Latin. Mei is given a Japanese meaning, “bright, reliant.”

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Mei in official name statistics

United States

In 2025, 117 girls were named Mei, making it the #1733 girls' name in the US. Since 1947, 1,859 girls have been named Mei, with the most (117) in 2025. It is most common, relative to births, in Utah, Arizona and Washington.

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Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880–2025. Names given to fewer than 5 babies in a year are not listed.

Other countries

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France (as Meï) #760 girls 50 Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE), 2025
Italy #953 girls 10 Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (ISTAT), 2024
Spain (Catalonia) #271 girls 13 Institut d'Estadística de Catalunya (Idescat), 2025
Spain (Catalonia) #970 girls (all ages) 287 Institut d'Estadística de Catalunya (Idescat), 2025

Counts are babies born that year, or living people for "all ages" rows, as published by each country's statistics office or population register.

Mei in other languages

Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Towns named Mei

There are 139 towns and villages with Mei in their name, in 12 countries.

🇲🇲 Myanmar 51🇭🇰 Hong Kong 38🇨🇳 China 32🇻🇳 Vietnam 4🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea 3🇨🇮 Ivory Coast 2🇮🇳 India 2🇯🇵 Japan 2

Mei Foo, Sham Shui Po District, Hong Kong · population 45,990 · View larger map
NameWherePopulation
Mei Foo Sham Shui Po District, 🇭🇰 Hong Kong 45,990 Map
Beugré Mei Lagunes District, 🇨🇮 Ivory Coast – Map
Chung Mei North District, 🇭🇰 Hong Kong – Map
Hang Mei Islands, 🇭🇰 Hong Kong – Map
Htin Mei Tanintharyi Region, 🇲🇲 Myanmar – Map
Kao Mei Tuyen Quang, 🇻🇳 Vietnam – Map
Kha Mei Yangon, 🇲🇲 Myanmar – Map
Lek Mei North District, 🇭🇰 Hong Kong – Map
Long Mei Sai Kung District, 🇭🇰 Hong Kong – Map
Lung Mei Tai Po, 🇭🇰 Hong Kong – Map

Source: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Maps: OpenStreetMap.

Mei songs

17 songs and musical works on Wikidata have Mei in their title. The best known:

  1. Yi Jian Mei – Fei Yu-ching (1983)
  2. Left Behind (A-Mei song) – A-Mei (2017)
  3. Das ist mei’ Vaterstadt
  4. Grüß dich Gott mei Arzgeberch
  5. Mei Ri Yi Jin Guo (1996)
  6. MEMENTO MEI, DOMINE
  7. MISERERE MEI (11113)
  8. MISERERE MEI (32171)
  9. Mei Nigara – A. R. Rahman
  10. Mei Nigara – Sanah Moidutty

Song data: Wikidata (CC0), ordered by how widely each song is covered on Wikipedia.

Fictional characters named Mei

Characters from films and TV series, from Wikidata, ordered by how widely they are covered on Wikipedia.

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Mei Misaki
Another
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Mei Terumi
Naruto: Shippūden
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Mei Undou
High School! Kimengumi
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Mei "Kim Anouk" Takanashi
Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night
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Mei Hamano
More Than a Married Couple, But Not Lovers
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Mei Irizaki
High School Fleet
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Mei Kinosaki
Marriagetoxin
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Mei Kusakabe
My Neighbor Totoro

Character data: Wikidata (CC0). Images: Wikimedia Commons; click an image for its author and licence.

Mei as a pet name

FurryName has found 60 dogs named Mei in public pet registers, making it the #2,596 dog name there. Most of them are registered in New York City (47), Seattle (4), Worcester (1). Mei as a dog name →

Names popular for both babies and dogs

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