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My.

a female given name popular in Sweden since the 1980s

2 characters1 syllables approx.Svenska language

Meaning & usage

name/ˈmyː/
  1. a female given name popular in Sweden since the 1980s

    common-gender
Where this word comes from

Coined by Finnish author Tove Jansson in 1950, via the character Little My in the Moomin books, named for my (“mu, the Greek letter μ”), because she was the smallest thing that there is.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.