A surname linked to ancient medicine; Yu the physician was a legendary healer.
Why it scores this way
Easy to say96
Reads the way it looks for an English speaker — no sounds English doesn't have.
Recognised in China45
Outside the top 100 — distinctive, but some people will ask you to repeat or write it.
Easy to write75
9 strokes — a little practice and it flows.
People who carried this name
Yu Feian — Modern Chinese painter (1889–1959), master of bird-and-flower painting.
Yu Boya — Legendary guqin master of the Spring and Autumn period, famous for the piece 'High Mountain Flowing Water' and the story of a kindred spirit.
Yu Pingbo — Modern Chinese writer and Redology scholar, great-grandson of Yu Yue, known for essays and critical studies of Dream of the Red Chamber.