Entry № 11830 · Chinese origin

Yue Yue — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ YOO-eh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Chinese
Meaning
"Moon, joy"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Ancient (Chinese)

A name that means "moon, joy".

The moon meaning is most common — celebrated in the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Yue is widely used as a given name across China and the Chinese diaspora.

Moon. The Chinese character of the night.

The name in its native script.

月 · 悦
Transliteration
Yuè
Pronunciation
/ juːˈeɪ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Yue stands.

Yue 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.

Yues before her.

Real people
Yue Minjun
Chinese contemporary artist.
born 1962
In fiction
Yue
Princess in Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Nickelodeon, 2005

Names connected to Yue.

The number behind Yue.

6

The Nurturer

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