With 104 681 bearers, Mei is the 14th most common given name in Hong Kong (2014 Data). With 23 103 bearers, Mei is the 20th most common feminine given name in Singapore (2014 Data). With 6 240 bearers, Mei is the 16th most common given name in Macau (2014 Data). Source: https://forebears.io/forenames/mei
My name is Mei. I love it because nobody has the name. If you are looking for a name that nobody has then I would go with this one. Although I don't want this name to become popular because it's very special.
Mei Finegold, also credited as Mei Feingold (born Meital Slonimsky), is an Israeli singer. Her third-place finish in Kokhav Nolad 7, Israel's version of Pop Idol, launched her career in 2009. Finegold represented Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014.
My Chinese name at birth was Mei Qing 美清--It's traditional for the father's father to choose any grandchild's name but I'm only half Chinese and on my mother's side so her father named me. The story goes that he spent months before my birth researching characters and meanings to choose the right name. It's not the name on my birth certificate but it still feels like mine. Mei is also my middle name as well as the name of my grandmother or at least part of her original name although she spells her anglicized name May.
This is quite a cute name. My sister and I wanted to choose a Chinese name for my pet pug (as she is of Chinese origin) and we selected this name for her. We typically call her Meimei though, because it sounds more like a nickname/pet name and because she was like a "little sister" to my other pug.
Mei is the name for the famous oriental plum blossom (Prunus Mei), which is the only flower that blossoms in winter (January), and is therefore a symbol of Chinese new year. Can also mean beauty or beautiful. Really love this name!
― Anonymous User 4/5/2009
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Overused by people who want to attempt to make up an "Asian Name." I read books with supposedly "Asian girls" whose names are Mei-Ling, Mei-Chen, Mei-Tang, Chin-Mei, Chang-Mei. It gets annoying after a while. I know that this is supposed to be a popular girls' name in China but in my Chinese school years, I've never heard of a student with "Mei" in their name at all!
Mei Lan is the baby panda that's in Atlanta, I think.
― Anonymous User 6/26/2007
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It means "my" in Romanian.
― Anonymous User 4/30/2007
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Depending on the tone used and character for "Mei," in Chinese it can mean any number of things - including: beautiful, American, and meimei means younger sister or is the nickname version for Mei.
Soong Mei-ling was the wife of President Chiang Kai-shek of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Mei-ling, Mei-li and Mei-lan are popular names, where Mei means "beautiful".
― Anonymous User 10/20/2006
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Meimei means "little (younger) sister". Mei also means "American" (from the sound "a-ME-rica").
Mei means 'plum-blossom' in some Chinese languages. In China most girls are named after flowers, such as 'Chun-mei', spring plum-blossom, and 'Dong-mei', winter plum-blossom.