Xiaomei
Only 21 women in Poland carry it, so most Poles will never meet one. A Chinese name meaning "little beauty".
Xiaomei Pronunciation
What Xiaomei means
Where Xiaomei comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Xiaomei is a Chinese name, written 小美 in characters. The first, xiǎo, means "small" or "little." The second, měi, means "beautiful." Put them together and you get the plain sense the name keeps in Polish: mała piękność, little beauty.
Měi is an old and common word. It sits inside 美国, Měiguó, the Chinese name for the United States, where it carries the sound of "America" while meaning "beautiful country." The same character names a person here. Xiao often works as an affectionate prefix in Chinese, set before a given name or a surname to soften it.
In Poland the name arrives with no diminutives of its own. There is no Polish short form. On a class register in Kraków it would stand as Xiaomei, four syllables a teacher learns to read: shyao-may. The meaning stays close to the characters. Little beauty, 小美.
How many people are named Xiaomei
1 in 1073516 women in Poland is named Xiaomei. 21 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #9780 among female names.