Mei-Li
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries
/mʎi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mei-Li is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: variant of Meile.
- USUnited States1 in 320K(measured from records)
- TWTaiwan≈1 in 33K
- CNChina≈1 in 63K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 116 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 33K (inferred from the name graph)
≈22,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Taiwan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Meili in US United States, FR France, CN China 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)variant of Meile.
Cited for this meaning 2
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mei-Li 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 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 63K | — | Meili | 55 |
| US United States | 1,040 | 1 in 320K | 1K | Meili | 116 |
| TW Taiwan | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Mei-Li | 28 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 285K | — | Meili | 8 |
| FR France | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Meili | 61 |
| HK Hong Kong | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 147K | — | Meili | 5 |
| SG Singapore | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 150K | — | Meili | 11 |
| EE Estonia | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 88K | 15 | — | 2 |
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; Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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).
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 Mei-Li mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Meile. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Mei-Li?
- A machine transcription gives /mʎi/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Mei-Li a male or female name?
- Mei-Li is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Mei-Li have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 22 thousand people named Mei-Li in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled meili.
- How common is the name Mei-Li?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,040 people named Mei-Li in 2020, about 1 in 320 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Mei-Li?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mei-liThe 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, “Mei-Li”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.