Mei-Ling
Origin
Cantonese
Syllables
2
Peak era
1930s
Today
▬ Steady
Meaning
beautiful and delicate as tinkling jade (美玲); the spelling generations of Cantonese American daughters carried in US Chinatowns, decades before pinyin Meiling arrived with Mandarin-speaking families
Popularity, 1890–2024
1890speak 1930s2020s
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Mei-Ling peaked in the 1930s.
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