Yuki
Yuki is a girl name of Japanese origin, ranked #92 in popularity, meaning Snow; happiness.
What Yuki means
Snow; happiness.
Yuki is short — 4 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Yuki comes from
Japanese given names are written in kanji, and the characters chosen carry the meaning as much as the sound does. The same pronunciation can be written several different ways, each shading the sense differently, so parents pick characters as deliberately as they pick the name itself.
Yuki is recorded as Japanese in origin. Browse other Japanese names.
How popular is Yuki?
Yuki is ranked #92, near the outer edge of the top hundred. Names here are often on the way up or on the way down, so this is the band where a name can feel fresh and established at the same time.
The character of Yuki
We group Yuki under the natural world and Happy — an unusual pairing, and often the reason a name feels the way it does. Each theme opens a full list of names sharing it.
Names like Yuki
These share Yuki's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Okou — Happiness.
- Hana — Flower, blossom.
- Haruka — Distant; spring.
- Kaede — Maple leaf.
- Mei — Sprout; bright.
- Midori — Green.
- Sachiko — Child of happiness.
- Sakura — Cherry blossom.
- Akiba — Leaf.
- Ayaha — Leaf.
- Ayuha — Leaf.
- Azuha — Leaf.