Mỹ: Name Meaning, Origin & Popularity

At a Glance: Name: Mỹ – Meaning: beautiful – Origin: Sino-Vietnamese – Gender: Girl


Mỹ is a Sino-Vietnamese girl's name meaning “beautiful”. It appears in our list of 175+ Vietnamese Baby Names That Are Musical and Meaningful.

Meaning & Origin of Mỹ

Meaning: Beautiful.

Origin: Sino-Vietnamese.

A common claim: Often equated with the modern Vietnamese word 'Mỹ' meaning 'America' (as in 'nước Mỹ'). Actually: As a given name, Mỹ derives from Sino-Vietnamese 美 ('beautiful'); the 'America' sense is an unrelated homophonous loanword, not the source of the given name's meaning.

Popularity of Mỹ

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration birth-name data, 1971–2024.

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