Yuki

Where Yuki comes from

Borrowed from Japanese ゆき (Yuki).
— Wiktionary's entry for Yuki
  • Japanese
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1915
    First appearance
    #3,795 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2004
    Peak, #3,444
    43 babies named Yuki — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2006
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #6,592.
  4. 2010
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Japanese.
  • A male 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.