Yuki
Almost perfectly split between women and men, a genuinely unisex name. Fewer than 70 people carry it in Poland, so meeting one is rare, and the meaning runs two ways: snow, or happiness.
Yuki Pronunciation
Yuki is pronounced ih-OO-kee (/ɨˈuki/).
What Yuki means
Where Yuki comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yuki reaches Poland with two homes. Its origin is Hebrew, and its everyday face is Japanese, where the sound attaches to 雪, snow, and to 幸, happiness. A child called Yuki answers to both meanings at once.
The Japanese reading gives the name its weather. Snow falls plainly in 雪, and the four letters sit light on a Polish tongue. The other reading, 幸, turns the same sound toward happiness, so a family in Kraków meets a name that means śnieg one moment and szczęście the next.
The Hebrew root runs underneath, older than the kanji. It gives Yuki a second passport, one that predates the Japanese spelling.
Yuki carries no Polish diminutive and no variant. It stays short. On a class register it takes four letters and needs no shortening. Read it as snow, read it as happiness.
How many people are named Yuki
1 in 663054 women in Poland is named Yuki. 67 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4459 among female names.
Yuki as a middle name
Yuki is a first name for 67 women in Poland and a middle name for another 11, an 86/14 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2347th, between Yin (11) and Yurany (11).
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#2345 Wiosna11
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#2346 Yin11
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#2347 Yuki11
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#2348 Yurany11
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#2349 Ágnes11