Xiumei
Just nine women in Poland carry this Chinese name, so most people here will never meet one. It reads as "graceful" in Chinese, and today it goes to girls only.
Xiumei Pronunciation
What Xiumei means
Where Xiumei comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Xiumei comes from Chinese, where it is usually written 秀美. The first part, xiù (秀), means graceful or refined. The second, měi (美), means beautiful. Put together, the name reads plainly as elegant and graceful, and that sense sits right in the characters, not added by a later story.
In Poland the name is rare and foreign. A girl called Xiumei on a school register in Wrocław marks a family with a Chinese thread. The name has no Polish diminutive and no imieniny, so it stays whole, unclipped by the Zosia or Kasia habit.
It belongs to a wide family of Chinese given names built on 美, beauty, and 秀, refinement. Millions of women across Chinese-speaking regions carry names of this shape. Xiumei is one of the older pairings, common among women born in the mid twentieth century.
The name travels well because it says what it means. Elegant, graceful. In Polish, elegancka i piękna. Two characters, one clear sense.
How many people are named Xiumei
1 in 2504870 women in Poland is named Xiumei. 9 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #18144 among female names.