Ming
Ming is a boy name of Chinese origin, meaning Bright, brilliant.
What Ming means
Bright, brilliant.
Ming is short — 4 letters, and ends on a consonant, which gives it a firmer stop.
Where Ming comes from
Chinese given names are chosen character by character, and the characters are picked for meaning, tone, and balance. Names are rarely drawn from a fixed list — most are composed fresh for the child.
Ming is recorded as Chinese in origin. Browse other Chinese names.
How popular is Ming?
Ming sits outside the top 100 boy names we currently track. For many parents that is the appeal: a name with genuine history behind it that has not been picked up by everyone at once.
The character of Ming
Ming sits in our light and brightness group. Following that theme is usually the fastest way to find the handful of other names that feel the way this one does.
Themes: Light
Names like Ming
These share Ming's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Chen — Morning, dawn.
- Akira — Bright, clear.
- Cyrus — Sun; lord.
- Haruto — Sun flying; soaring.
- Hikaru — Light, radiance.
- Lucas — Bringer of light.
- Lucien — Light.
- Aarush — First ray of the sun.
- Aditya — The sun.
- Albert — Noble and bright.
- Alberto — Noble and bright.
- Anwar — Rays of light.