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Ah Mooi name meaning

  • 阿妹familiar prefix; younger sister
  • 阿梅familiar prefix; Chinese plum (Prunus mume)
Letters
6
Syllables
1
First letter
A
Romanization
Cantonese, Hokkien
Character options
2
Category
Chinese Names
Gender
♀ Girl
  • Chinese characters阿妹阿梅
Peak 1950s: 13.1%
of the girl top-10 total
JPN Chinese table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadegirl
1940s–
1950s13.1%
1960s–
1970s–
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–

Chinese Names: A

Ah Mooi is a Chinese girl's name from Cantonese or Hokkien, possibly written 阿妹 ('younger sister') or 阿梅 ('plum blossom'), with the familiar prefix Ah.

Chinese characters for Ah Mooi

This spelling is common in Cantonese and Hokkien romanization.

  • 阿妹

    familiar prefix; younger sister

    Cantonese aa3 mui6 / Hokkien a mūi

  • 阿梅

    familiar prefix; Chinese plum (Prunus mume)

    Cantonese aa3 mui4 / Hokkien a mûi

One spelling can stand for several characters. The meaning of a name depends on the characters the family chose; characters marked “attested” are found in records of real names.

About the name Ah Mooi

Ah Mooi combines the familiar prefix Ah (阿) with Mooi, a spelling of the sound mui. That matches Cantonese mui6 for 妹 (younger sister) and mui4 for 梅 (Chinese plum), and Hokkien mūi and mûi. According to JPN, it peaked in the 1950s with 1,675 baby girls. The real meaning depends on the characters the family chose.

Gender♀ Girl
RomanizationCantonese, Hokkien
PartsAh
First letterChinese Names starting with A

Ah Mooi in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
Girl: 1,675 · 13.1%
1960s
not in the top 10
1970s
not in the top 10
1980s
not in the top 10
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Ah Mooi as their first name (as published by JPN), by decade of birth, for the decades in which it was in the top 10 for its sex in the JPN Chinese table. Bar length shows the name’s share of that decade’s top-10 total for the sex (the percentage after the count), because those totals differ between decades. Source: JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)

Character pages

Each page shows the character’s recorded meanings, dialect readings and every Malaysian spelling.

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: 阿 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. MDBG: 阿 · mdbg.net · meaning
  3. Wiktionary: 妹 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  4. MDBG: 妹 · mdbg.net · meaning
  5. Wiktionary: 梅 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  6. MDBG: 梅 · mdbg.net · meaning

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