What does Mei mean in Hawaiian?
Mei is a Hawaiian girl name that means Hawaiian form of May. It is pronounced MAY, with 1 syllable. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Mei belongs with other Hawaiian names about biblical.
May in Hawaiian
Mei is the Hawaiian form of May, the English name respelled with Hawaiian sounds. It is not a translation of what May means, but it has been used by Hawaiian families since the 1800s. The page on May in Hawaiian traces which letters changed and why.
How to pronounce Mei
Say every vowel. The vowels in Mei are e as in “bet”, i as “ee”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Mei a boy or girl name?
Mei is used mainly as a girl's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Mei is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 1,637 U.S. babies named Mei since 1947, but that spelling is mostly the Chinese name, so the count says little about the Hawaiian name. In Hawaiʻi itself, 5 babies born in the state were named Mei from 2020 to 2021, with a peak of 5 in 2020. 5 were born there from 2012 to 2021.
How well recorded is Mei?
Mei has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.