Yui
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Yui is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Japan than in any other country. In Japanese, recorded as Rōmaji transcription of ゆい.
- JPJapan≈1 in 953(inferred from the name graph)
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 3.3K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 46K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Japan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 132 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 953 (inferred from the name graph)
≈130,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Japan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Rōmaji transcription of ゆい
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
How Yui is read(measured from records)
Yui is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Japanese73%
Rōmaji transcription of ゆい
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English9.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Yui in English.
- Chinese5.8%
Approval
as a wordrecorded as wuuAn English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
Skilled
as a wordrecorded as wuuAn English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
Muffle
as a wordrecorded as wuuAn English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yui counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Yui is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swahili, alternative form of -jui; negative stem of -yua
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
ISO 639-3 language code for Yurutí.
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Yui Natsukawab. 1968JPJapanese actress
- Yui Tezukab. 1969JPJapanese architect
- Yui Horieb. 1976JPJapanese singer and voice actress (born 1976)
- Yui Tatsumib. 1984JPJapanese pornographic actress
- Yui Ichikawab. 1986JPJapanese gravure idol and actress
- Yuib. 1987JPJapanese singer-songwriter (1987-)
- Yui Aragakib. 1988JPJapanese actress and singer (born 1988)
- Yui Yokoyamab. 1992JPJapanese idol, former member of AKB48
- Yui Ogurab. 1995JPJapanese voice actress, singer and actress
- Yui Mizunob. 1999JPJapanese singer (born 1999)
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(measured from records)
Attested in 45 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 680 | #13,720 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 194 | #13,720 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 32 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2015 | 29 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 26 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2003 | 24 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 22 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 21 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 20 | — |
| AU Australia | AU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD) | 2016 | 1 | #839 |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 2016 | 1 | #839 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Yui mean, and where does it come from?
- Rōmaji transcription of ゆい Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Yui a male or female name?
- Yui is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Yui have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 132 thousand people named Yui in Japan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yui.
- How common is the name Yui?
- In the United States, the national register counted 874 people named Yui in 2020, about 1 in 381 thousand residents.
- How common is Yui compared with other names?
- In Japan, Yui is the 104th most common given name of 366,905 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yuiThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Yui” — the 104th most common given name in Japan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.