Yuka is a first name for girls.
Recently, the name Yuka has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Yuka. That means that a girl named Yuka is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Yuka.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Yuka. Girls named Yuka have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it a few years ago: At No. 4,171 Yuka ranked higher than ever before in 1996. By comparison, there have been 104 years in which the first name Yuka has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2022. In general, parents name their daughters Yuka only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves exceptional!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Yuka was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Meeting a woman or girl named Yuka is something really special. Out of all 50 states, women and girls named Yuka can be found in only two: California and New York. No other state currently has residents named Yuka. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few women and girls called Yuka living in one state or another (if your name is Yuka and you live outside of California or New York, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Yuka is in California, as there live more women and girls with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in California, only 0.00038% of all female residents are named Yuka – that’s just one in 261,630! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 67 women with that name. So, if your name is Yuka, chances are you will never meet another woman with your beautiful first name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter Y is pretty rare as an initial letter for girls' names: only 1.8% of all common girls' names in the US begin with Y. By the way, the most common first letters of girls' names are A, S and M, while Q, X and U are the least common initials of girls' names.
With four letters, the name Yuka is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Since 1.8% of all girls’ names begin with a Y, this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average, but Y is by no means the rarest initial. And of course, there are single names with Y that are very popular, currently the most common girls’ name that starts with Y is Yvonne.
If your name is Yuka and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Yuka, you can simply say:
Yoyo
Unicorn
Koala
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Yuka
Yuka
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
Y
U
K
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
Y
U
K
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Yuka sounds like this:
