Given name & surname
Yue
“of the moonlight”·“born beneath the moon”
Yue is used as a given name and a surname. Interpretations include “of the moonlight” (Chinese) and “born beneath the moon” (Chinese). These may reflect different naming traditions.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Interpretations include “of the moonlight” (Chinese) and “born beneath the moon” (Chinese). These may reflect different naming traditions.
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Chinese.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1982. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yue through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 228
- 86 boys · 142 girls
- Most popular year
- 2021
- 20 babies
- 2025
- 11
- #9,438 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +78%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 11 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 9,438 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 6,690 as a first name in 2020; 3,123 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Yue’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Yue
- Sun YueChinese basketball player (born 1985)
- Yuan YueChinese tennis playerborn 1998
- Shen YueChinese actressborn 1997
- Du YueChinese badminton playerborn 1998
- Xun YueChinese official, historian and scholar (148–209)
- Han YueChinese badminton playerborn 1999
- Shi YueChinese go playerborn 1991
- Gu YueChinese actor (1937-2005)
- Wang YueChinese accident victim2009–2011
Characters named Yue: Fang Yue (Luo Guanzhong's Romance of the Three Kingdoms).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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