Meï
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Meï is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Hong Kong it is the 14th most common given name. Recorded meaning: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Meï is also written Мей in Cyrillic and 메이 in Korean (Hangul).
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 360(inferred from the name graph)
- TWTaiwan≈1 in 370
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 610
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Meï itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 342 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 358 (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,200,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Hong Kong, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meï in other scripts: Cyrillic and Korean (Hangul)
(measured from records)Locally spelled Mei in US United States, MY Malaysia, HK Hong Kong and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Cited for this meaning 8
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Meï counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈2,200,000 est. | ≈1 in 644 | — | Mei | 138 |
| TW Taiwan | #965 | ≈64,000 est. | ≈1 in 367 | — | Mei | 136 |
| MY Malaysia | #69 | ≈59,000 est. | ≈1 in 605 | 1.5K | Mei | 101 |
| US United States | — | 25,052as Mae | 1 in 13K | 103K | Mei | 342 |
| HK Hong Kong | #14 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 358 | — | Mei | 101 |
| NO Norway | — | 8,217as May | 1 in 665 | 18K | — | 14 |
| ES Spain | — | 578 | 1 in 87K | 578 | Mei | 58 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; data.gov.my — Name Popularity Dashboard (JPN, by decade and ethnicity); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Meï mean, and where does it come from?
- See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 6 other sources.
- Is Meï a male or female name?
- Meï is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: France (INSEE, 2024).
- Which countries have the most people named Meï?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.2 million people named Meï in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mei. After it come Taiwan, Malaysia, United States and Hong Kong; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Meï?
- In Spain, the national register counted 578 people named Meï, about 1 in 87 thousand residents.
- How common is Meï compared with other names?
- In Hong Kong, Meï is the 14th most common given name of 23,276 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Meï?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/me%C3%AFThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Meï” — the 14th most common given name in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.