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Youyou

girl name · Chinese origin · 2 syllables

Meaning

drawn from a classical poem describing deer bleating over wild artemisia; Tu Youyou, chemist and Nobel laureate who discovered the malaria treatment artemisinin, foreshadowed by the very verse her name comes from

Popularity, 1890–2024

1890speak 2020s

Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Youyou peaked in the 2020s.

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