Mei
Mei is a girl name of Japanese origin, ranked #95 in popularity, meaning Sprout; bright.
What Mei means
Sprout; bright.
Mei 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 Mei comes from
Japanese given names are written in kanji, and the characters chosen carry the meaning as much as the sound does. The same pronunciation can be written several different ways, each shading the sense differently, so parents pick characters as deliberately as they pick the name itself.
Mei is recorded as Japanese in origin. Browse other Japanese names.
How popular is Mei?
Mei is ranked #95, near the outer edge of the top hundred. Names here are often on the way up or on the way down, so this is the band where a name can feel fresh and established at the same time.
The character of Mei
We group Mei under the natural world and light and brightness — an unusual pairing, and often the reason a name feels the way it does. Each theme opens a full list of names sharing it.
Names like Mei
These share Mei's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Hotaru — Firefly.
- Haru — Spring; sunlight.
- Aurora — Dawn; goddess of sunrise.
- Daisy — The day's-eye flower.
- Summer — The warm, bright season.
- Midori — Green.
- Akari — Light, brightness.
- Hana — Flower, blossom.
- Haruka — Distant; spring.
- Himari — Facing the sun; sunflower.
- Hina — Sun, light.
- Kaede — Maple leaf.