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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