Given name & surname

Yuu

“a superior man”

Yuu is used as a given name and a surname. One Japanese interpretation is “a superior man.”

Original Japanese木綿

Meaning & origin

What it means

One Japanese interpretation is “a superior man.”

Where it comes from

An origin associated with this spelling is Japanese.

Yuu’s family of names

Yuu has a related form in Yuuta. Yuu has a related form in Yuuto. In Japanese usage, Yuu is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 木綿.

Walk Yuu’s family in the name graph

Yuu木綿យូYuutaYuuto

Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.

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Nicknames & forms 2

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Spellings & scripts 2

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

See also 1

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