Pui Pui
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Meaning
affectionate repetition of 佩 (pui, 'pendant'; also used for admiration or esteem)
The story
Pui Pui is intimate by design. In this collection it represents 佩佩: 佩 can mean to wear a pendant and also appears in words for admiration or respect. The repeated form matters as much as the character. In Cantonese, family members and close friends can make an affectionate name by repeating the final syllable of a given name; Hong Kong teaching materials give the pattern explicitly and note that people rarely use it for themselves. That makes Pui Pui a relationship name as well as a written one. It may begin with 佩, but the Latin syllable pui could represent another character in another person's name, so the meaning should not be generalized without the writing. The US curve shows only a tiny recent trace. Its real story is not an American trend, but the warmth created when one sound is lovingly said twice.
How popular is Pui Pui around the world?
Pui Pui does not appear in US Social Security baby-name records, which list only names given to at least five babies in a year. There is no popularity curve to chart: a genuinely rare pick.
United States
under 5 a year
Pui Pui does not appear in US Social Security baby-name records, which list only names given to at least five babies in a year. There is no popularity curve to chart: a genuinely rare pick.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
Not on the record in Spain, Mexico City, Argentina, Puerto Rico, England and Wales, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland and Poland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
Not on the Chile record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 5 registrations in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the Montevideo record for 1940 to 2011: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the South Australia record for 1944 to 2017: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the Austria record for 1984 to 2025: Statistik Austria publishes every first name down to a single birth, so this name was not given there in those years (before 2010 the record covers babies with Austrian citizenship only). Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.
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