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Yujin

Just 28 people in Poland carry it, nearly all of them women, so most Poles have never met one. At root it reads as Greek, meaning "precious and abundant".

Yujin Pronunciation

Yujin is pronounced ih-OO-yeen (/ɨˈujin/).

Alive in 2025
28
National rank
#7969

What Yujin means

Where Yujin comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Yujin reaches back to Greek Eugenios, from eu, meaning well, and genos, meaning born. That older root gave Europe the masculine Eugene and the feminine Eugenia, both carrying the sense of noble birth. The reading "precious and abundant" arrived later, from Korea, where Yujin (유진) is written in hanja, and those characters can be chosen to stand for something valuable and plentiful.

The name serves both girls and boys. Its sound holds steady while the picked characters move the meaning from one family to the next. In Korean the same three syllables can point to grace, treasure, or a full harvest, depending on which hanja a family sets down on the birth registration.

A Polish class register would list Yujin once, with no diminutive beside it, since the name kept no short form on its way here. No imieniny marks it in the calendar either. What remains is a Greek stem meaning well-born, and over it the Korean sense: cenny, obfity.

How many people are named Yujin

1 in 939326 women in Poland is named Yujin. 28 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #7969 among female names.

People with the name Yujin 2019 → 2025
28 +20 since 2019
2020 11 +3
2021 13 +2
2022 15 +2
2023 19 +4
2024 23 +4
2025 28 +5

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