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Yukio

/YOO-kee-oh/ MasculineJapanese

Meaning

Yukio is a masculine name of Japanese origin meaning “snow man, or fortunate man”.

Yukio adds the masculine ending -o to yuki, and depending on the characters chosen it can mean man of snow or man of good fortune. Novelist Yukio Mishima, three times shortlisted for the Nobel Prize, remains the name's most famous bearer.

A classic twentieth-century Japanese men's name.

At a glance

Origin
Japanese
Gender
Masculine
Pronounced
/YOO-kee-oh/
Themes
Snow

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Questions

  • Yukio is a masculine name of Japanese origin meaning “snow man, or fortunate man”. Yukio adds the masculine ending -o to yuki, and depending on the characters chosen it can mean man of snow or man of good fortune.

  • Yukio is traditionally a masculine (boy) name. It is a classic twentieth-century Japanese men's name.

  • The name Yukio comes from Japanese. Yukio adds the masculine ending -o to yuki, and depending on the characters chosen it can mean man of snow or man of good fortune. Novelist Yukio Mishima, three times shortlisted for the Nobel Prize, remains the name's most famous bearer.

  • Yukio is pronounced YOO-kee-oh.

More names that mean snow

Names that share this meaning.

  1. Edur MasculineBasque“snow”
  2. Edurne FeminineBasque“snow”
  3. Eira FeminineWelsh“snow”
  4. Eirwen FeminineWelsh“white as snow”
  5. Fannar MasculineIcelandic“snowdrift”
  6. Frost MasculineEnglish“frozen dew”