Yukio

Yukio is a masculine Japanese given name.

Possible writings
Yukio can be written using different combinations of kanji characters. Here are some examples:


 * 幸夫, "happiness, man"
 * 幸生, "happiness, live"
 * 幸男, "happiness, man"
 * 幸雄, "happiness, male"
 * 行夫, "to go, man"
 * 行男, "to go, man"
 * 行雄, "to go, male"
 * 之夫, "of, man"
 * 之男, "of, man"
 * 之雄, "of, male"
 * 由起夫, "reason, to rise, man"
 * 由紀夫, "reason, chronicle, man"
 * 由記雄, "reason, scribe, male"
 * 悠紀夫, "long time, chronicle, man"
 * 雪雄, "snow, male"

The name can also be written in hiragana ゆきお or katakana ユキオ.

Notable people with the name

 * Yukio Akagariyama (赤狩山 幸男), Japanese pocket billiards player
 * Yukio Aki (阿木 由紀夫), pseudonym of Akiyuki Nosaka (野坂 昭如), Japanese novelist, singer, lyricist, and politician
 * Yukio Aoshima (青島 幸男), Japanese politician who was Governor of Tokyo
 * Yukio Arai (荒井 幸雄), Japanese baseball player
 * Yukio Araki (荒木 幸雄), youngest-known Japanese Kamikaze pilot killed in World War II
 * Yukio Edano (枝野 幸男), Japanese politician
 * Yukio Endō (遠藤 幸雄), Japanese gymnast
 * Yukio Futatsugi (二木 幸生), Japanese video game developer
 * Yukio Furuyama (古山 征男), Japanese equestrian
 * Yukio Hashi (橋 幸夫), Japanese popular singer
 * Yukio Hatoyama (鳩山 由紀夫), Japanese Prime Minister
 * Yukio Hattori (服部 幸應), Japanese cook and television presenter
 * Yukio Horigome (堀籠 幸男), Japanese lawyer
 * Yukio Iketani (池谷 幸雄), Japanese gymnast
 * Yukio Jitsukawa (実川 幸夫), Japanese politician
 * Yukio Kagayama (加賀山 就臣), Japanese motorcycle racer
 * Yukio Kasahara (笠原 幸雄), Japanese soldier
 * Yukio Kasaya (笠谷 幸生), Japanese ski jumper
 * Yukio Matsuda (松田 征男), Japanese rower
 * Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫), Japanese writer
 * Yukio Motoki (元木 由記雄), Japanese rugby football player
 * Yukio Ninagawa (蜷川 幸雄), Japanese theatre director
 * Yukio Odagiri (小田桐 幸雄), Japanese boxer
 * Yukio Okutsu (1921–2003), Hawaiian soldier who won the US Congressional Medal of Honor
 * Yukio Ozaki (尾崎 行雄), Japanese politician
 * Yukio Peter (born 1984), Nauruan weightlifter
 * Yukio Roho (露鵬 幸生), Russian sumo wrestler
 * Yukio Sakaguchi (坂口 征夫), Japanese mixed martial artist and professional wrestler
 * Yukio Segawa (瀬川 幸雄), Japanese boxer
 * Yukio Seki (関 行男), Japanese naval aviator who led the first official kamikaze attack
 * Yukio Shimoda (1921–1981), American actor
 * Yukio Shmull (died 2018), Palauan politician
 * Yukio Tabuchi (田淵 行男), Japanese photographer
 * Yukio Takeuchi (竹内 行夫), Japanese Supreme Court justice
 * Yukio Tanaka (田中 幸雄), Japanese baseball player
 * Yukio Tani (谷 幸雄), Japanese judoka
 * Yukio Tomioka (富岡 由紀夫), Japanese politician
 * Yukio Tsuchiya (土屋 征夫), Japanese musician
 * Yukio Yamaji (山地 悠紀夫), Japanese murderer
 * Yukio Yung, pseudonym of Terry Burrows, English writer and musician

Fictional characters

 * Yukio (雪緒), a heroine in the X-Men comics
 * Yukio, female character in the Eric Van Lustbader novel, The Ninja
 * Yukio Haibara (灰原 由起夫) (Johnny) in the anime Mahoraba
 * Yukio Mashimi in the anime Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
 * Yukio Oikawa (及川 悠紀夫) in the anime Digimon
 * Yukio Tanaka (田中 幸雄) in the manga Beck
 * Yukio Okumura (奥村 雪男), the twin character of the main protagonist Rin Okumura from the anime/manga, Blue Exorcist
 * Yukio Washimine (鷲峰 雪緒), a character from the anime/manga, Black Lagoon
 * Yukio Tonegawa (利根川 幸雄), one of the main antagonists in the anime/manga, Kaiji
 * Yukio Hirayama (平山 幸雄), also known as "Fake Akagi", a character from the anime/manga, Akagi

Other

 * 5513 Yukio, asteroid
 * "Death and Night and Blood (Yukio)", a song by The Stranglers from Black and White