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悠
ゆう
Yuu
YOO · a unisex name
“Calm vastness”
Serene · Spacious · Unhurried
The story of Yuu
The spacious Yuu — time enough for everything that matters.
Yuu is the softest sound in Japanese naming, stretched into a name of its own. Genuinely unisex, genuinely effortless — everywhere in the world it sounds like 'you'.
Kanji by kanji
calm, distant, eternal
A kanji evoking vast skies and unhurried time — a spacious, peaceful character.
How it feels
The full story
About 悠
悠 refuses to hurry: a name for people whose calm makes rooms feel larger. Vastness worn as a temperament.
Popularity in Japan
Yuu appears steadily on both boys' and girls' charts from the 1990s onward.
Through the decades
A quiet constant across the Heisei and Reiwa years.
Deep dive
Dozens of beloved names begin with 'yu' — gentle (優), calm (悠), abundant (裕). Yuu distills them all to the sound itself: one breath, held kindly.
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