Yūji

Yūji, Yuji or Yuuji is a common masculine Japanese given name.

Possible writings
Yūji can be written using different combinations of kanji characters. Some examples:


 * 勇二, "courage, 2"
 * 勇次, "courage, next"
 * 裕二, "abundant, 2"
 * 祐二, "help, 2"
 * 祐次, "help, next"
 * 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"

The name can also be written in hiragana ゆうじ or katakana ユウジ.

Yuji is a separate given name.


 * 諭二, "to persuade, 2"
 * 諭次, "to persuade, next"
 * 愉二, "pleased, 2"
 * 諭次, "pleased,next"
 * 愈一, "more and more, 1"
 * 愈次, "more and more,next"

And can also be written in hiragana ゆじ or katakana ユジ.

Notable people with the name

 * Yuji Abe (阿部 祐二), Japanese television journalist and actor
 * Yuji Adachi (足立 祐二), Japanese musician and songwriter
 * Yuji Aoki (青木 雄二), Japanese manga artist
 * Yuji Hanada (花田 裕治), Japanese Paralympic swimmer
 * Yuji Hino (火野 裕士), Japanese professional wrestler
 * Yuji Hiramatsu (平松 祐司), Japanese high jumper
 * Yuji Hirayama (平山 ユージ), Japanese professional rock climber
 * Yuji Horii (堀井 雄二), Japanese video game designer
 * Yuji Ide (井出 有治), Japanese racing driver
 * Yuji Iga (伊賀 裕治), Japanese ice hockey player
 * Yuji Igarashi (五十嵐 雄二), Japanese golfer
 * Yuji Iiyama (飯山 裕志), Japanese baseball player
 * Yuji Iizuka (飯塚 祐司), Japanese ice hockey player and coach
 * Yuji Iwahara (岩原 裕二), Japanese manga artist
 * Yuji Kaku (賀来 ゆうじ), Japanese manga artist
 * Yuji Kamosawa (鴨沢 祐仁), Japanese cartoonist
 * Yuji Kato (加藤 裕司), Japanese Paralympic judoka
 * Yuji Katsuro (勝呂 裕司), Japanese Nordic combined skier
 * Yuji Kimura (木村 祐志), Japanese footballer
 * Yuji Kishi (岸 祐二), Japanese actor and voice actor
 * Yuji Kitajima (北島 祐二), Japanese footballer
 * Yūji Koseki (古関 裕而), Japanese composer
 * Yuji Masuda (増田 裕司), Japanese shogi player
 * Yuji Matsumoto (松本 裕治), Japanese information scientist
 * Yuji Mitsuya (三ツ矢 雄二), Japanese actor, voice actor, and sound supervisor
 * Yuji Miura (三浦 裕司), Japanese ski mountaineer and trail runner
 * Yuji Nagata (永田 裕志), Japanese professional wrestler
 * Yuji Naka (中 裕司), Japanese video game designer and programmer
 * Yuji Nakamura (athlete) (中村 祐二, born 1970), Japanese long-distance runner
 * Yuji Nakazawa (中澤 佑二), Japanese football player
 * Yūji Nishida (西田 有志), Japanese volleyball player
 * Yuji Nishino (西野 勇士), Japanese baseball player
 * Yuji Ozaki (尾崎 雄二), Japanese footballer
 * Yūji Saiga (雑賀 雄二), Japanese photographer
 * Yuji Senuma (瀬沼 優司), Japanese footballer
 * Yuji Sonoda (苑田 右二), Japanese rugby union player
 * Yuji Takeshima (竹嶋 裕二), Japanese footballer
 * Yūji Ueda (上田 祐司), Japanese voice actor
 * Yuji Umezawa (梅沢 勇治), Japanese sprint canoeist
 * Yuji Wakasa (輪笠 祐士), Japanese footballer
 * Yuji Yamaguchi (山口 祐司), Japanese animator
 * Yuji Yokoyama (横山 雄次), Japanese footballer and manager

Fictional characters

 * Yuji Kazami (風見 雄二), protagonist of the Grisaia visual novel series
 * Yuji Sakai (坂井 悠二), protagonist of the light novel series Shakugan no Shana
 * Yuji Terushima (照島 遊児), a character from Haikyu!! with the position of captain and outside hitter from Johzenji High
 * Yuji Itadori (虎杖 悠仁), protagonist of the manga series Jujutsu Kaisen
 * Yuji Endou (遠藤 勇次), recurring character in the manga series Gambling Apocalypse: Kaiji.