Mei-Ling

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

Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Mei-Ling has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.

Names that fit alongside Mei-Ling

Man Ling Yuen-Ting Lai-Ying Man-Yee Yee-Wah Siu Sin

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