Mai
Mai is a girl name of Vietnamese origin, meaning Plum blossom; apricot flower.
What Mai means
Plum blossom; apricot flower.
Mai is short — 3 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Mai comes from
Vietnamese given names are ordinary words with clear meanings — flowers, virtues, natural features — chosen for what they say rather than inherited from a set of traditional names.
Mai is recorded as Vietnamese in origin. Browse other Vietnamese names.
How popular is Mai?
You will not find Mai in the top 100 girl names at the moment. Plenty of well-known names sit outside the charts; popularity measures how often a name is registered, not how good or how real it is.
The character of Mai
Two ideas meet in Mai: flowers and growing things and the natural world. Names carrying more than one theme tend to be the ones that suit a wider range of siblings.
Names like Mai
These share Mai's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Hoa — Flower.
- Daisy — The day's-eye flower.
- Daphne — The laurel tree.
- Hana — Flower, blossom.
- Iris — Rainbow; messenger of the gods.
- Lily — The lily flower — purity and beauty.
- Mali — Jasmine flower.
- Marigold — The golden marigold flower.
- May — The hawthorn blossom; the fifth month.
- Meadow — A field of wildflowers.
- Rose — The rose flower.
- Sakura — Cherry blossom.