Fei
A Chinese name meaning "to fly". In Poland it's rare enough that most people have never met one, and the few dozen who carry it are both women and men.
Fei Pronunciation
Fei is pronounced FE-ee (/ˈfɛi/).
What Fei means
Where Fei comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Fei arrives in Poland from far outside the usual European name-stock. In Mandarin the written character 飛, romanised as fēi, means to fly. The Polish gloss holds the same idea: latać, lot. No diminutive travels with it, and no cross-gender variant. The name stays short.
There is a bird in that character. Early forms of 飛 were drawn from a creature with wings lifted in motion, and the verb still covers flight of many kinds, from birds to aircraft. The short meaning here is the origin, not a sense attached to the name later.
On a Polish class register, Fei sits among the Zuzannas and Kacpers as a single syllable. A teacher reads it once and moves on. What the name says, it says without detour: to fly.
How many people are named Fei
1 in 561742 men in Poland is named Fei. 51 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5265 among male names.
Fei as a middle name
Fei is a first name for 51 men in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 96/4 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 5873rd, between Febe (2) and Fejga (2).
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#5871 Fazila2
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#5872 Febe2
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#5873 Fei2
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#5874 Fejga2
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#5875 Felizia2