Yuka (name)

Yuka (ゆか, ユカ) and Yūka (ゆうか, ユウカ) are feminine Japanese given names.

Possible writings
Yuka and Yūka can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:

The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.
 * 由香, "reason, fragrance"
 * 由華, "reason, beautiful"
 * 由佳, "reason, good"
 * 由花, "reason, flower"
 * 有佳, "exist, good"
 * 有香, "exist, fragrance"
 * 有華, "exist, beautiful"
 * 優花, "tenderness, flower"
 * 優香, "tenderness, fragrance"
 * 結花, "link, flower"

People

 * pronounced Yuka
 * Yuka (有香), a Japanese singer
 * Yuka (有華) a Japanese singer-songwriter
 * Yuka Ando (安藤 友香), a Japanese long-distance runner
 * Yuka Endo (遠藤 由華), a Japanese rhythmic gymnast
 * Yuka Fujimori (藤森 由香), a Japanese snowboarder
 * Yuka Hirano (平野 由佳), a Japanese ice hockey player
 * Yuka Hirata (裕香), a Japanese actress and gravure idol
 * Yuka Honda (ゆか), a Japanese musician
 * Yuka Hoshaku (有香), a Japanese actress
 * Yuka Iguchi (井口 裕香, born 1988), a Japanese voice actress
 * Yuka Imai (由香, born 1970), a Japanese voice actress
 * Yuka Inokuchi (有佳), a Japanese voice actress
 * Yuka Ishigaki (石垣 優香), a Japanese table tennis player
 * Yuka Itaya (由夏), a Japanese actress and newscaster
 * Yuka Kamino (神野 由佳), a Japanese speed skater
 * Yuka Kashino (有香), a Japanese singer and a member of Perfume
 * Yuka Kato (加藤 ゆか), a Japanese swimmer
 * Yuka Komatsu (born 1978) a Japanese voice actress
 * Yuka Kosaka (由佳), a Japanese gravure idol, actress and model
 * Yuka Kuramochi (倉持 由香), a Japanese gravure idol, television personality and actress
 * Yuka Mitsumori (三森 由佳), a Japanese racewalker
 * Yuka Motohashi (由香), a Japanese actress
 * Yuka Murayama (由佳), a modern Japanese writer
 * Yuka Naoi (直井 由香), a Japanese goalball player
 * Yuka Nukui (貫井 柚佳), a Japanese voice actress
 * Yuka Oda (小田 由香), a Japanese ice hockey player
 * Yuka Onishi (結花), a Japanese actress and singer
 * Yuka Orihara (born 2000), a Finnish ice dancer
 * Yūka Sasaki (佐々木 優香), a Japanese ten-pin bowler
 * Yuka Sato (有香), a Japanese figure skater
 * Yuka Saitō (essayist) (由香), a Japanese essayist and Suntory employee
 * Yuka Saitō (voice actress) (佑圭), a Japanese voice actress
 * Yuka Takaoka (高岡由佳), a Japanese attempted murderer
 * Yuka Terasaki (寺崎 裕香), a Japanese voice actress
 * Yuka Tokumitsu (born 1969), a Japanese voice actress
 * Yuka Tsujiyoko (由佳), a Japanese video game music composer for Nintendo
 * Yuka Yoshisako (吉迫 由香), a Japanese sailor


 * pronounced Yūka
 * Yūka (優香), a Japanese actress
 * Yūka Kageyama (影山 優佳), a member of Hinatazaka46
 * Yuka Kinoshita (木下 ゆうか), a Japanese YouTuber
 * Yuuka Maeda (憂佳), an ex-member of the Hello! Project group S/mileage
 * Yuka Momiki (籾木 結花), a Japanese women's footballer
 * Yuuka Nanri (侑香), a Japanese voice actress and J-Pop singer
 * Yuka Nomura (佑香), a Japanese actress
 * Yuka Ogata (緒方 夕佳), a Japanese politician
 * Yuka Saso (笹生 優花), a Japanese professional golfer
 * Yūka Setō (勢藤 優花), a Japanese ski jumper
 * Yūka Sugai (菅井 友香), an ex-member of Sakurazaka46
 * Yūka Tano (優花), an ex-member of AKB48

Fictional characters

 * pronounced Yuka
 * Yuka Koizumi, a character from Guru Guru Pon-chan
 * Yuka Nakagawa, a character from the Battle Royale novel, films and manga from the same name
 * Yuka Takeuchi, a character from the Variable Geo fighting game series
 * Yuka, one of Kagome's schoolmates from InuYasha
 * Yuka, a character from Elfen Lied
 * Yuka Sanada, a character from Genseishin Justirisers
 * Yuka Mochida, a character from Corpse Party
 * Yuka Kon, a character from World Trigger
 * Yuka Osada, a character from Kamen Rider 555
 * Yuka Ohta, a character from Ultraman Z


 * pronounced Yūka
 * Yūka Kazami, a character from the Touhou Project danmaku game series
 * Yūka Ichijō, a character from AKB0048
 * Yūka Hayase, a character from the role-playing game Blue Archive