Meiling
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- MAY-ling
- Origin
- Chinese
- US rank, 2025
- #14,937 for girls
Meiling is a girls' name of Chinese origin, meaning “beautiful + tinkling of jade”. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
What does Meiling mean?
Chinese: meaning depends on the characters chosen
“beautiful + tinkling of jade”
Soong Mei-ling, wife of Chiang Kai-shek, was one of the most influential Chinese women of the twentieth century.
Is Meiling a girl's or a boy's name?
Meiling is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Meiling in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #14,937among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5about 1 in 320,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Meiling, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. Its busiest year was 2005, with 17 girls. It first appears in the records in 1960.
Half of all the girls named Meiling in the US since 1880 were born between 1985 and 2012, the years shaded on the chart below.
Meiling in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,156 |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,456 |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,300 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,448 |
| 2019 | 5 | #15,532 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,540 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,120 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,210 |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,443 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,124 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,230 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,706 |
| 2011 | 5 | #16,756 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,270 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,054 |
| 2008 | 13 | #8,961 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,535 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,601 |
| 2005 | 17 | #6,815 |
| 2004 | 10 | #9,887 |
| 2003 | 6 | #13,837 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,039 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,189 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,147 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,216 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,511 |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 9 | #8,726 |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,297 |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,381 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,320 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,540 |
| 1985 | 5 | #10,672 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,290 |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,822 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,235 |
| 1981 | 9 | #6,802 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,177 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,694 |
| 1978 | 0 | – |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,442 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,609 |
| 1975 | 6 | #7,982 |
| 1974 | 5 | #8,773 |
| 1973 | 0 | – |
| 1972 | 0 | – |
| 1971 | 0 | – |
| 1970 | 0 | – |
| 1969 | 0 | – |
| 1968 | 0 | – |
| 1967 | 0 | – |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,563 |
| 1965 | 0 | – |
| 1964 | 0 | – |
| 1963 | 0 | – |
| 1962 | 0 | – |
| 1961 | 0 | – |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,695 |
Names like Meiling
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
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Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Meiling: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/meiling, updated 20 October 2026.