Given name & surname
Yui
Yui is a unisex given name from Japanese. It is used in English, French, and Portuguese.
Original Japanese由依
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1989. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yui through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 574
- 0 boys · 574 girls
- Most popular year
- 2016
- 32 babies
- 2025
- 20
- #6,104 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +2%
- Steady
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 20 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 6,104 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 1.9% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 32 in 2016. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 874 as a first name in 2020; 170 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Yui’s family of names
In French usage, Yui was borrowed from the Japanese form ゆい. In Japanese usage, Yui is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 佑唯. In Japanese usage, Yui is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 優以.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 16
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Yui
- YuiJapanese singer-songwriter (1987-)
- Yui OhashiJapanese swimmerborn 1995
- Yui AragakiJapanese actress and singer (born 1988)
- Yui HorieJapanese singer and voice actress (born 1976)
- Yui IshikawaJapanese voice actressborn 1989
- Yui SusakiJapanese freestyle wrestler (1999-)
- Yui HatanoJapanese actress, AV idol and modelborn 1988
- Yui MizunoJapanese singer (born 1999)
- Yui MakinoJapanese voice actressborn 1986
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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