Entry № 11839 · Japanese origin

Yuki Yuki — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ YOO-kee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Japanese
Meaning
"Snow; happiness"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Japanese)

A name that means "snow; happiness".

Yuki is a Japanese name written with several possible kanji.

Yuki is among the most popular contemporary girl names in Japan.

Snow. Or happiness. The kanji decide.

The name in its native script.

雪 · 幸
Transliteration
Yuki
Pronunciation
/ ˈjuː.ki /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Yuki stands.

Yuki does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Yukis before her.

Real people
Yuki Saito
Japanese actress and singer.
born 1966
In fiction
Yuki Sohma
Character in the manga and anime Fruits Basket.
1998 manga

Names connected to Yuki.

The number behind Yuki.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Yuki reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.