Yukio
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Japanese: gets what he wants
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/juˈkioʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Yukio is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Japan than in any other country.
- JPJapan≈1 in 2.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 987K
- CACanada≈1 in 417K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Japan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 144 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈54,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Japan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Japanese: gets what he wants
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yukio counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JP Japan | #384 | ≈54,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Yukio | 122 |
| CN China | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 581K | — | Yukio | 11 |
| BR Brazil | — | 439 | 1 in 482K | 591 | — | — |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 728K | listed | — | — |
| US United States | — | 337 | 1 in 987K | 333 | Yukio | 144 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈90 est. | ≈1 in 417K | — | Yukio | 12 |
| SE Sweden | — | 19 | 1 in 537K | 19 | — | 5 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); the id-github-names register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Yukio is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, männl. Vom. japanischer Herkunft (japan. yuki »Schnee« + japan. 0 »Mann«).
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
‘Happy man’.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ozaki Yukiob. 1858JPJapanese politician (1858-1954)
- Yukio Mishimab. 1925JPJapanese author (1925–1970)
- Yukio Ninagawab. 1935JPJapanese theatre director and actor (1935–2016)
- Yukio Endob. 1937JPJapanese gymnast (1937–2009)
- Yukio Noguchib. 1940JPJapanese economist
- Yukio Hashib. 1943JPJapanese singer, actor, composer, music producer (1943–2025)
- Yukio Hatoyamab. 1947JPPrime Minister of Japan from 2009 to 2010
- Yukio Takemotob. 1954JPJapanese politician (1954-)
- Yukio Edanob. 1964JPJapanese politician, lawyer
- Yukio Tsuchiyab. 1974JPJapanese association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 27 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 591 | #12,902 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 573 | #5,627 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 439 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 428 | #14,628 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 418 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 352 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 333 | #27,237 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1950 | 264 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1940 | 133 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1940 | 131 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1950 | 88 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1930 | 78 | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Yukio mean, and where does it come from?
- Japanese: gets what he wants Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- Is Yukio a male or female name?
- Yukio is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How do you pronounce Yukio?
- A machine transcription gives /juˈkioʊ/ (IPA) for Japanese.
- In which country does Yukio have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 54 thousand people named Yukio in Japan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yukio.
- How common is the name Yukio?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 439 people named Yukio in 2022, about 1 in 482 thousand residents.
- How common is Yukio compared with other names?
- In Japan, Yukio is the 384th most common given name of 366,905 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Yukio?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yukioThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Yukio” — the 384th most common given name in Japan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.