Yiu-Ming

Meaning

shining brightness (耀明). The Yiu here is 耀, to shine; the same Hong Kong spelling also renders the surname 姚 (Mandarin Yao), so Yiu turns up in US records as both a given name and a family name

Popularity, 1890–2024

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

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The Yiu-Ming deep dive

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Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Yiu-Ming truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Yiu-Ming fits with your family’s names and surname.

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