Entry № 6712 · Chinese origin

Mei-ling Mei-ling — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MAY-ling /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Chinese
Meaning
"Beautiful jade-tinkle (Madame Chiang)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Chinese)

A name that means "beautiful jade-tinkle (madame chiang)".

The first Chinese national to address the U.S.

Beautiful jade-tinkle. Congress.

The name in its native script.

美齡
Transliteration
Měilíng
Pronunciation
/ ˈmeɪ.lɪŋ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Mei-ling stands.

Mei-ling does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Mei-lings before her.

Real people
Soong Mei-ling
Madame Chiang Kai-shek.
1898 – 2003
In fiction
Mei-ling
Featured in Lisa See's The Island of Sea Women.
2019

Names connected to Mei-ling.

The number behind Mei-ling.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Mei-ling reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.