Yuki

given name · Japanese · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Yuki is a given name, most frequently recorded in Japan, where it is the most common given name. It appears chiefly in Japanese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: ,2 ‘Happiness’; ‘snow’; also short for any name beginning with Yuki-.

rarermore common
  • JPJapan1 in 346◐
  • USUnited States1 in 131K
  • CNChina1 in 2.8M

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈3.5K ●

across 11 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
239 ●

194K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 82K ◐

Sweden

Spellings & scripts●

YukiLatin · Japanese●215K records
유키Hangul · Korean●4 records
ΓιουκιGreek · Greek●0 records

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

,2 ‘Happiness’; ‘snow’; also short for any name beginning with Yuki-.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Yuki is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
JP Japan#1208,797183K rec.——Yuki182
US United States—2,5427.1K rec.1 in 131K2.5KYuki239
CN China—1,269203 rec.——Yuki42
HK Hong Kong#265723666 rec.——Yuki30
BR Brazil—593—1 in 357K593——
MY Malaysia—536513 rec.——Yuki29
PH Philippines—526285 rec.——Yuki31
SG Singapore—392409 rec.——Yuki45
CA Canada—382392 rec.—1Yuki57
GB United Kingdom—352285 rec.—listedYuki65
SE Sweden—125250 rec.1 in 82K125Yuki14
NL Netherlands—8488 rec.1 in 206K84—24

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Japanese215K81%
  • English14K5%
  • Portuguese9.1K3%
  • Chinese7.3K3%
  • Indonesian3.3K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Japanese214,84981%
English14,1485%
Portuguese9,1333%
Chinese7,3473%
Indonesian3,2701%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Yuki is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name20K records spelled Yuki14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, Germany, Brazil

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Yu-Ki, Yūki, Ÿūkî, Yûki, Yükï

  • Portuguese given name15K records spelled Yuki15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Mexico, Philippines

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Yukí, Yukî, Yūki, Yukï, Ýuki

  • Chinese given name9.3K records spelled Yuki14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, United States

    Also written Yukio, Yu-Ki, Ÿûkį, Yukì, Yükî

  • Indonesian given name4.7K records spelled Yuki9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Yuki, Yùkì, Ỷuki, Ýükî, Yūki

  • French given name2.4K records spelled Yuki8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, United Kingdom

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Yûki, Yūki, Yüki, Yùki, Yükï

  • a separate given name2.0K records spelled Yuki4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, China

    Also written Yu-Ki, Yûki, Yūki

  • a separate given name622 records spelled Yuki3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Hong Kong, Malaysia

    Also written Y̡̧̛̮͔͇̜̙̗͍̘͍̙̥͈̖̍̎͑̉̔̃̈́̄̇͌͘͝͝͠ư̢̥̜̼̤͙̘͇͔̫̞̞̮̣̏̅͐͋̄̈́̏̽̃͌̈̒͘͜͝k̛̮͈̻̖̫̟̲͎̗͖̞̱͙̗̒͗͂̊̅̋͛̀̃̅̆͒̌͘͜i̢͈̺̥̰̥͚̘̻͙͉̯̥͒͐̽̊̒͛͒̍̿͆͛̀͘͝͠ͅͅ, Yūki

45 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Yuki is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Japanese, Rōmaji transcription of ゆき

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, N. American people

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • Felicità / Neve

    as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…

  • In English, A Native American people from northern California.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

020406019201940196019802000202043 · 2004

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Yuki in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1915–2025
Yearrecords
19156
19166
19208
19215
19257
19656
19677
19688
19698
19708
19717
197210
19737
19757
19765
19779
19785
197912
19808
19819
19825
19836
198414
19859
198614
19877
19889
198916
199018
199119
199220
199315
199418
199518
199625
199712
199820
199923
200024
200121
200218
200329
200443
200535
200619
200734
200829
200923
201032
201123
201227
201334
201423
201522
201631
201726
201826
201931
202023
202127
202217
202324
202431
202524

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 64 years between 1915–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

196019802000Amami Yūki, b. 1967Maki Mizuno, b. 1970Youki Kudoh, b. 1971Yuki Abe, b. 1981Yuki Koyanagi, b. 1982Yūki Kaji, b. 1985Yūki Nagasato, b. 1987Yuki Yamada, b. 1990Yuki Kashiwagi, b. 1991Yuki Tsunoda, b. 2000

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 55 sources across 28 countries.

Official registers attesting Yuki
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.5K#5,043
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020953#5,043
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022593—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—402#11,884
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—348#18,003
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010198#92,719
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000191#89,895
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—191#11,884
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020190#101,282
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—125#7,345
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—91#5,749
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)202086—

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 322 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Yuki?
We estimate roughly 3.5 thousand people bear Yuki (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Yuki have the most bearers?
Yuki is most frequently recorded in Japan, where it is most often spelled yuki.
How common is Yuki compared with other names?
In Japan, Yuki is the most common given name of 355,102 given names recorded there.
Is Yuki a male or female name?
Yuki is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
What does the name Yuki mean?
Recorded meaning: ,2 ‘Happiness’; ‘snow’; also short for any name beginning with Yuki-.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Yuki” — the most common given name in Japan. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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