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結菜
ゆな
Yuna
YOO-nah · a female name
“Binding + spring blossoms”
Warm · Connected · Blooming
The story of Yuna
The beloved Yuna — bonds that bloom like a spring field.
Two round, warm syllables that travel easily across languages. Yuna's favorite kanji weave together binding bonds and flowering greens.
Kanji by kanji
to tie, to bind
The kanji of knots and bonds — connecting people, promises and hearts.
greens, rape blossom
The kanji of nanohana, the yellow spring fields — nourishing and bright.
How it feels
The full story
About 結菜
結菜 pictures friendship as a field of spring flowers: many small blooms, tied together at the roots. It suits a warm gatherer of people.
Popularity in Japan
Yuna has been a steady presence in the girls' top 20 since the 2010s.
Through the decades
A soft-sounding modern favorite, part of the wave of gentle two-syllable girls' names.
Deep dive
Yuna belongs to a family of names built on the sound 'yu' — gentle, warm, unhurried. Its most popular spelling, 結菜, joins human connection (結) with springtime rape blossoms (菜), a field of yellow tied together by roots.
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