Yui
Fewer than two dozen people in Poland carry it, so most Poles have never met one. Japanese at root, built from elements for "bind" and "clothing".
Yui Pronunciation
Yui is pronounced ih-OO-ee (/ɨˈui/).
What Yui means
Where Yui comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yui comes from Japanese, and its best known written form pairs two characters: 結 for binding and 衣 for clothing or a garment. Together they give the sense the name still carries, bind and clothing. The first character, 結, turns up in everyday words for tying, knotting, and fastening. So the name sits close to a knot that holds.
The same sound can be spelled with different kanji, since the syllables can be assigned characters chosen for how they read. 結衣 is one of the most common spellings, worn by the singer and actress Yui Aragaki. The sound stays short. Two beats and done.
On a Polish class register the name reads cleanly, three letters a teacher can call at roll. It has no Polish diminutive and no local variant. What it keeps is the pair of characters behind it, bind and clothing.
How many people are named Yui
1 in 1186518 women in Poland is named Yui. 22 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #9497 among female names.
Yui as a middle name
Yui is a first name for 22 women in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 92/8 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 6994th, between Yufei (2) and Yuliet (2).
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#6992 Yudith2
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#6993 Yufei2
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#6994 Yui2
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#6995 Yuliet2
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#6996 Yulitza2