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Yun

girl name
Origin
Chinese
Syllables
1
Peak era
Rare
Today
▬ Steady

Meaning

cloud (云/雲); a soft, airy pinyin name used as a standalone American first name by some Chinese American parents

Popularity, 1890–2024

1890srare in US records2020s

Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Yun has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.

See popularity in Brazil

Popularity in Brazil

95 people · the #42,809 first name in Brazil · median age 46

1970s1980s

Among people named Yun living in Brazil at the 2022 census, roughly as many were born in the 1970s as in the 1980s, more than in any other decade.

Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022

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The Yun deep dive

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Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Yun truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Yun fits with your family’s names and surname.

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