Yu
3
Babies in 2024
-87%
10-year change
2012
Peak · 32
—
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Yu
Yu has been falling out of fashion as a UK girl's name. In 2024, 3 girls were registered with the name in England & Wales — down 87% on a decade earlier.
Yu reached its peak in 2012, when 32 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #1,075 for UK girls that year. That's roughly 9% of the peak — registrations have thinned out since.
Across 22 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 315 girls have been officially registered with the name Yu in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 78 girls were registered with the name, starting from 24 in 2014 and ending at 3 in 2024.