Yui

Where Yui comes from

Borrowed from Japanese ゆい (Yui).
— Wiktionary's entry for Yui
  • Japanese
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1989
    First appearance
    #8,761 among girls, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2016
    Peak, #4,423
    32 babies named Yui — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2020
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #7,969.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name from Japanese.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.