Entry № 11605 · Chinese origin

Xiaoyu Xiaoyu — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ shyow-YOO /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Chinese
Meaning
"Gentle rain"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "gentle rain".

Xiaoyu means gentle rain — the soft, fine drizzle of spring. It carries freshness, calm and renewal.

It reads soft and cool, a gentle-rain name.

Gentle rain — a Chinese name.

The name in its native script.

Xiaoyu
Transliteration
Xiaoyu
Pronunciation
/ ɕjaʊˈy /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Xiaoyu stands.

Xiaoyu 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.

Xiaoyus before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Xiaoyu.

The number behind Xiaoyu.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Xiaoyu reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.