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Yuka

Girls' name

Reason, cause

Yuka has been given to 391 babies in the U.S. since 1975. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1996, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Yuka, 2023

1 in 663,000

Yuka over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yuka: meaning, origin, and history

Reason, cause

Japanese

What Yuka means

Yuka means “reason, cause”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Yuka is used in Japanese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /jɨᵝ.kä/ for Yuka.

Origin, language, and formation

Yuka is used in English. Its origins include Japanese.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 391 girls were recorded with the name Yuka between 1975 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 22 in 1996; its best national rank was #4,731 in 1996.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Yuka?

Yuka had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yuka sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yuka. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yukas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yuka was born before 1997 — so the typical Yuka is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
39.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
44.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
391
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 39.1% of all recorded uses (153).

Is Yuka rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1996 (22)
Years since peak
29
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,731
1996

Spellings of Yuka

Yuka is not the most common spelling — Luna is, with 27.6% against Yuka's 0.12%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Yuka is used

Across 1910–2025, Yuka was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 425,659 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Yuka has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yuka around the world

Where Yuka ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2010–2013
    #5,742
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Yuka by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,731
1996
Peak year
1996
22 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
391
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Yuka

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Yuka

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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