Yūji
Gender | Male |
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Origin | |
Word/name | Japanese |
Meaning | It can have many different meanings depending on the kanji used. |
Other names | |
Related names | Yōji Yū Yūjirō |
Yūji, Yuji or Yuuji (ゆうじ, ユウジ) is a common masculine Japanese given name.
Possible writings[]
Yūji can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:
- 雄二, "heroic, two"
- 勇二, "courage, second"
- 裕二, "abundant, two"
- 祐二, "help, two"
- 祐次, "help, next"
- 雄治, "masculine, govern"
- 悠児, "permanence, child"
- 祐史, "help, history"
- 祐司, "help, rule"
- 裕司, "abundant, rule"
The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.
People with the name[]
- Yuji Abe (阿部 祐二, born 1958), Japanese television journalist and actor
- Yuji Adachi (足立 祐二, born 1964), Japanese musician and songwriter
- Yūji Aoki (1945–2003), Japanese manga artist
- Yuji Funayama (disambiguation), multiple people
- Yuji Hanada (花田 裕治), Japanese Paralympic swimmer
- Yuji Hino (裕士, born 1985), Japanese professional wrestler
- Yuji Horii (雄二, born 1954), Japanese video game designer
- Yuji Hiramatsu (平松 祐司, born 1997), Japanese high jumper
- Yuji Hirayama (平山ユージ), Japanese professional rock climber
- Yuji Ide (井出 有治), Japanese racing driver
- Yuji Iga (伊賀 裕治, born 1965), Japanese ice hockey player
- Yuji Igarashi (五十嵐 雄二, born 1968), Japanese golfer
- Yuji Iiyama (飯山裕志), Japanese baseball player
- Yuji Iizuka (飯塚 祐司, born 1974), Japanese ice hockey player and coach
- Yūji Iwahara (裕二), Japanese manga artist
- Yuji Kamosawa (鴨沢 祐仁, 1952–2008), Japanese cartoonist
- Yuji Kato (加藤 裕司, born 1978), Japanese Paralympic judoka
- Yuji Katsuro (勝呂 裕司, born 1949), Japanese Nordic combined skier
- Yuji Kimura (木村 祐志, born 1987), Japanese footballer
- Yūji Kishi (祐二, born 1970), Japanese actor and voice actor
- Yuji Kitajima (北島 祐二, born 2000), Japanese footballer
- Yūji Masuda (増田 裕司, born 1971), Japanese shogi player
- Yuji Matsumoto (松本 裕治), Japanese information scientist
- Yūji Mitsuya (雄二, born 1954), Japanese actor, voice actor, and sound supervisor
- Yuji Miura (三浦, born 195?), Japanese ski mountaineer and trail runner
- Yuji Nagata (裕志, born 1968), Japanese professional wrestler
- Yuji Naka (裕司, born 1965), Japanese video game designer and programmer
- Yuji Nakazawa (佑二, born 1978), Japanese football player
- Yuji Nakamura (athlete) (中村祐二, born 1970), Japanese long-distance runner
- Yūji Nishida (西田 有志, born 2000), Japanese volleyball player
- Yuji Nishino (born 1991), Japanese baseball player
- Yūji Oda (裕二, born 1967), Japanese actor and singer
- Yuji Ohno (雄二), Japanese jazz musician
- Yuji Okabayashi (裕二, born 1982), Japanese professional wrestler
- Yuji Okano (born 1964), Japanese shot putter
- Yuji Ozaki (尾崎 雄二, born 1985), Japanese footballer
- Yuji Senuma (瀬沼 優司, born 1990), Japanese footballer
- Yuji Sonoda (苑田 右二, born 1973), Japanese rugby union player
- Yūji Takada (裕司, born 1960), Japanese actor and voice actor
- Yuji Takeshima (竹嶋 裕二, born 1999), Japanese footballer
- Yūji Ueda (ゆうじ, born 1967), Japanese voice actor
- Yuji Umezawa (梅沢 勇治, born 1945), Japanese sprint canoeist
- Yuji Wakasa (輪笠 祐士, born 1996), Japanese footballer
- Yūji Yamaguchi (山口 祐司, fl. 1999–2014), Japanese animator
- Yuji Yamamoto (born 1952), Japanese politician
- Yuji Yokoyama (横山 雄次, born 1969), Japanese footballer and manager
Fictional characters[]
- Yuuji Kazami (雄二), protagonist of the Grisaia visual novel series
- Yuji Sakai (悠二), protagonist of the light novel series Shakugan no Shana
- Yuuji (Digimon)
- Yuuji Terushima (照島 遊児), a character from Haikyu!! with the position of captain and outside hitter from Johzenji High
- Yuuji Itadori, protagonist of the manga series Jujutsu Kaisen
See also[]
- 47077 Yuji, a main-belt asteroid
Categories:
- Given names
- Japanese masculine given names