Yūji
Yūji, Yuji or Yuuji is a common masculine Japanese given name.
Written forms
Yūji can be written using different combinations of kanji characters. Some examples:- 勇二, "courage, 2"
- 勇次, "courage, second"
- 裕二, "abundant, 2"
- 祐二, "help, 2"
- 祐次, "help, second"
- 雄治, "masculine, govern"
- 雄二, "masculine, 2"
- 悠児, "permanence, child"
- 悠二, "permanence, 2"
- 祐史, "to help, history"
- 祐司, "to help, rule"
- 裕司, "abundant, rule"
Yuji is a separate given name.
- 諭二, "to persuade, 2"
- 諭次, "to persuade, second"
- 愉二, "pleased, 2"
- 諭次, "pleased,second"
- 愈一, "more and more, 1"
- 愈次, "more and more, second"
Notable people with the name
- Yuji Abe, Japanese television journalist and actor
- Yuji Adachi, Japanese musician and songwriter
- Yuji Alfonso Cortez, Political Theorist
- Yuji Aoki, Japanese manga artist
- Yuji Hanada, Japanese Paralympic swimmer
- Hattori Yūji, Japanese Sumo wrestler
- Yuji Hino, Japanese professional wrestler
- Yuji Hiramatsu, Japanese high jumper
- Yuji Hirayama, Japanese professional rock climber
- Yuji Horii, Japanese video game designer
- Yuji Ide, Japanese racing driver
- Yuji Iga, Japanese ice hockey player
- Yuji Igarashi, Japanese golfer
- Yuji Iiyama, Japanese baseball player
- Yuji Iizuka, Japanese ice hockey player and coach
- Yuji Iwahara, Japanese manga artist
- Yuji Kaku, Japanese manga artist
- Yuji Kamosawa, Japanese cartoonist
- Yuji Kato, Japanese Paralympic judoka
- Yuji Katsuro, Japanese Nordic combined skier
- Yuji Kimura, Japanese footballer
- Yuji Kishi, Japanese actor and voice actor
- Yuji Kitajima, Japanese footballer
- Yūji Koseki, Japanese composer
- Yuji Masuda, Japanese shogi player
- Yuji Matsumoto, Japanese information scientist
- Yuji Mitsuya, Japanese actor, voice actor, and sound supervisor
- Yuji Miura, Japanese ski mountaineer and trail runner
- Yuji Nagata, Japanese professional wrestler
- Yuji Naka, Japanese video game designer and programmer
- Yuji Nakamura, born 1970, Japanese long-distance runner
- Yuji Nakazawa, Japanese football player
- Yūji Nishida, Japanese volleyball player
- Yuji Nishino, Japanese baseball player
- Yuji Ozaki, Japanese footballer
- Yūji Saiga, Japanese photographer
- Yuji Senuma, Japanese footballer
- Yuji Sonoda, Japanese rugby union player
- Yūji Ueda, Japanese voice actor
- Yuji Umezawa, Japanese sprint canoeist
- Yuji Wakasa, Japanese footballer
- Yuji Yokoyama, Japanese footballer and manager
Fictional characters
- Yuji Kazami, protagonist of the Grisaia visual novel series
- Yuji Sakai, protagonist of the light novel series Shakugan no Shana
- Yuji Terushima, a character from Haikyu!! with the position of captain and outside hitter from Johzenji High
- Yuji Itadori, protagonist of the manga series Jujutsu Kaisen
- Yuji Endou, recurring character in the manga series Gambling Apocalypse: Kaiji.