Yuna
Only about 95 women in Poland carry it, so most people here have never met one. The name ties to Japanese and Korean use, glossed as "gentle, kind".
Yuna Pronunciation
Yuna is pronounced ih-OO-nah (/ɨˈuna/).
What Yuna means
Where Yuna comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yuna moves lightly between languages. Its roots are recorded as Slavic, yet the name settled into Japanese and Korean, where the two syllables sit easily on the tongue. In Japanese it can be written to mean gentle, a reading bound up with kindness.
Polish speakers hand it a different gloss: the beauty of the moon. That sense came to the name later, and it is not the literal origin. Still, it gives Yuna a lunar coolness that suits the soft vowels.
In Korea the skater Kim Yuna took Olympic gold at Vancouver in 2010, and fans at home called her Queen Yuna. The name grew familiar far beyond Seoul.
Yuna keeps no diminutives. Two syllables, and that is all it needs. On a Polish class register it reads as clear and complete, gentle in the Japanese sense, moonlit in the Polish one.
How many people are named Yuna
1 in 237304 women in Poland is named Yuna. 95 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3572 among female names.
Yuna's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Where Yuna is most popular
Yuna is most popular in Lower Silesian, 1275% above the national average (3 girls born 2019–2025).
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Lower Silesian3 girls born+1275%
Yuna as a middle name
Yuna is a first name for 95 women in Poland and a middle name for another 8, a 92/8 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2894th, between Yamina (8) and Zerihun (8).
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#2892 Włodzisława8
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#2893 Yamina8
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#2894 Yuna8
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#2895 Zerihun8
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#2896 Özge8