Entry № 11834 · Chinese origin

Yuhuan Yuhuan — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ YOO-hwen /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Chinese
Meaning
"Jade ring (Tang concubine Yang Guifei)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Chinese)

A name that means "jade ring (tang concubine yang guifei)".

Yuhuan (玉環) means "jade ring" in Chinese. Yang Yuhuan, known as Yang Guifei (719-756), was the most famous beauty in Chinese history — favorite consort of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang.

One of the Four Beauties of ancient China.

Jade ring. The Tang concubine whose love story is Chinese literature's central romance.

The name in its native script.

玉環
Transliteration
Yùhuán
Pronunciation
/ ˈjuː.hwɛn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Yuhuan stands.

Yuhuan 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.

Yuhuans before her.

Real people
Yang Yuhuan
Yang Guifei, Tang imperial consort.
719 – 756
In fiction
Yuhuan
Bai Juyi's Song of Everlasting Sorrow.
806

Names connected to Yuhuan.

The number behind Yuhuan.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Yuhuan reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.