Entry № 11822 · Chinese origin

Youyou Youyou — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ YOH-yoh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Chinese
Meaning
"Cry of the deer (Tu Youyou, Nobel Prize chemist)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Modern (Chinese)

A name that means "cry of the deer (tu youyou, nobel prize chemist)".

Youyou (呦呦) is from the Book of Songs (Shijing) — the cry of the deer eating wild herbs in the field. Tu Youyou (born 1930) is the Chinese pharmacologist who won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering artemisinin — the antimalarial drug derived from sweet wormwood (Artemisia annua) that has saved millions of lives.

Cry of the deer.

The name in its native script.

呦呦
Transliteration
Yōuyōu
Pronunciation
/ ˈjoʊ.joʊ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Youyou stands.

Youyou 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.

Youyous before her.

Real people
Tu Youyou
2015 Nobel Prize in Medicine.
born 1930
In fiction

Names connected to Youyou.

The number behind Youyou.

5

The Seeker

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