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Ah Moy name meaning

  • 阿妹familiar prefix; younger sister
  • 阿梅familiar prefix; Chinese plum (Prunus mume)
Letters
5
Syllables
1
First letter
A
Romanization
Hakka
Character options
2
Category
Chinese Names
Gender
♀ Girl
  • Chinese characters阿妹阿梅
Peak 1950s: 7.1%
of the girl top-10 total
JPN Chinese table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadegirl
1940s5.1%
1950s7.1%
1960s–
1970s–
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–

Chinese Names: A

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

Chinese characters for Ah Moy

This spelling is common in Hakka romanization.

  • 阿妹

    familiar prefix; younger sister

    Hakka â moi

  • 阿梅

    familiar prefix; Chinese plum (Prunus mume)

    Hakka â mòi

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 Moy

Ah Moy combines the familiar prefix Ah (阿) with Moy, a spelling of the Hakka sound moi. In Hakka, 妹 (younger sister) is read moi and 梅 (Chinese plum) is read mòi. According to JPN, it peaked in the 1940s with 965 baby girls. The real meaning depends on the characters the family chose.

Gender♀ Girl
RomanizationHakka
PartsAh
First letterChinese Names starting with A

Ah Moy in official JPN data

1940s
Girl: 965 · 5.1%
1950s
Girl: 910 · 7.1%
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 Moy 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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