Yuji
given name · Japanese · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Yuji is a given name, most frequently recorded in Japan, where it is the 50th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Japanese and Portuguese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: ‘Second male’; ‘courageous second [son]’.
- JPJapan1 in 1K◐
- KRSouth Korea1 in 30K
- USUnited States1 in 432K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.2K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 164 ●
- 1 in 175K ◐
across 7 countries
recorded for this name
65K records
Official registry-verified
Iceland
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled 유지 in KR South Korea.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
‘Second male’; ‘courageous second [son]’.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JP Japan | #50 | 72,184 | 58K rec. | — | listed | Yuji | 164 |
| KR South Korea | — | 2,076 | 1.8K rec. | — | — | 유지 | 26 |
| US United States | — | 770 | 3.8K rec. | 1 in 432K | 770 | Yuji | 159 |
| BR Brazil | — | 401 | — | 1 in 528K | 401 | — | — |
| CN China | — | 318 | 54 rec. | — | — | Yuji | 27 |
| CA Canada | — | 202 | 197 rec. | — | 6 | Yuji | 24 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 155 | 119 rec. | — | listed | Yuji | 31 |
| PH Philippines | — | 141 | 79 rec. | — | — | Yuji | 19 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 131 | 34 rec. | — | — | Yuji | 11 |
| ID Indonesia | — | 80 | 39 rec. | — | — | Yuji | 30 |
| SG Singapore | — | 78 | 64 rec. | — | — | Yuji | 20 |
| RU Russia | — | 66 | 66 rec. | — | — | Yuji | 15 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Japanese76K80%
- Portuguese10K11%
- English4.2K4%
- Spanish7721%
- German5561%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | 75,974 | 80% |
| Portuguese | 10,307 | 11% |
| English | 4,173 | 4% |
| Spanish | 772 | 1% |
| German | 556 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Yuji is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Korean, alternative form of 유지 (yuji, “retention”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In zor, scratch
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1972 | 5 |
| 1976 | 6 |
| 1979 | 5 |
| 1981 | 6 |
| 1982 | 8 |
| 1983 | 6 |
| 1984 | 7 |
| 1985 | 5 |
| 1986 | 7 |
| 1987 | 5 |
| 1988 | 7 |
| 1989 | 7 |
| 1991 | 9 |
| 1992 | 11 |
| 1993 | 5 |
| 1994 | 6 |
| 1995 | 8 |
| 1996 | 8 |
| 1998 | 6 |
| 1999 | 5 |
| 2000 | 5 |
| 2001 | 6 |
| 2002 | 6 |
| 2003 | 5 |
| 2004 | 6 |
| 2005 | 6 |
| 2006 | 8 |
| 2007 | 5 |
| 2009 | 5 |
| 2010 | 9 |
| 2011 | 7 |
| 2013 | 7 |
| 2014 | 6 |
| 2015 | 8 |
| 2017 | 7 |
| 2018 | 5 |
| 2019 | 5 |
| 2021 | 7 |
| 2022 | 9 |
| 2024 | 8 |
| 2025 | 13 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 41 years between 1972–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Yūji Ōnob. 1941JPJapanese composer, arranger, and jazz pianist (1941-2026)
- Guts Ishimatsub. 1949JPnot in their usual nameJapanese boxer
- Yūji Mitsuyab. 1954JPJapanese actor, voice actor, director of audiography, voice director and sound supervisor
- Yuji Horiib. 1954JPJapanese video game designer
- Shōta Shunpūteib. 1959JPnot in their usual nameJapanese Rakugoka
- Yūji Tanakab. 1965JPJapanese owarai talent, television presenter and essayist (1965-)
- Yūji Uedab. 1967JPJapanese actor, voice actor and singer
- Yūji Odab. 1967JPJapanese actor and singer
- Yūji Kishib. 1970JPJapanese actor and voice actor (born 1970)
- Yuji Nakazawab. 1978JPJapanese association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 27 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.2K | #7,680 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 770 | #14,117 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 401 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 398 | #15,552 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 353 | #7,813 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 338 | #18,325 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 325 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 225 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 168 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 148 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 123 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2000 | 100 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 98 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Yuji?
- We estimate roughly 1.2 thousand people bear Yuji (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Yuji have the most bearers?
- Yuji is most frequently recorded in Japan, where it is most often spelled yuji.
- How common is Yuji compared with other names?
- In Japan, Yuji is the 50th most common given name of 355,102 given names recorded there.
- Is Yuji a male or female name?
- Yuji is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Yuji mean?
- Recorded meaning: ‘Second male’; ‘courageous second [son]’.
Query this name via API
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Yuji” — the 50th most common given name in Japan. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.