Yufei
A Chinese name meaning "precious jade". It stays rare in Poland: most people here will go a lifetime without meeting one, and the roughly 20 who carry it split fairly evenly between women and men.
Yufei Pronunciation
Yufei is pronounced ih-oo-FE-ee (/ɨuˈfɛi/).
What Yufei means
Where Yufei comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yufei comes from Chinese, where the first sound, yù, means jade. In classical China jade outranked gold. It stood for virtue, for something worth guarding. The short meaning attached to Yufei, "precious jade," grows straight from that first syllable, and the second part lends it a lift, a sense of flight or fragrance depending on the characters a family chooses.
The origin here is filed as "other," outside the Slavic and Latin roots most Polish registers know. That places Yufei among the newer arrivals on a Polish class list.
Picture a name-day calendar at the urząd. It has no slot for Yufei, because the name brings no Polish imieniny and no patron saint. It travels light. There are no diminutives handed down, no cross-gender twin, no worn-in variant. A child called Yufei in Kraków carries the plain form and the jade behind it.
Jade was never quarried for speed. It was cut slowly, polished by hand, valued because it lasted. That is the sense a parent reaches for. The name means precious jade, and it says so directly.
How many people are named Yufei
1 in 1502922 women in Poland is named Yufei. 21 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #9784 among female names.
Yufei's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Yufei as a middle name
Yufei is a first name for 21 women in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 91/9 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 6993rd, between Yudith (2) and Yui (2).
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#6991 Yola2
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#6992 Yudith2
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#6993 Yufei2
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#6994 Yui2
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#6995 Yuliet2