Yū or Yu or Yuu (ゆう, ユウ) is a very common Japanese given name used by either sex.
Yū can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:
優, "tenderness" or "superiority"
夕, "evening"
友, "friend"
有, "qualified"
勇, "courage"
祐, "help"
裕, "abundant"
雄, "masculine"
悠, "permanence"
由宇, "reason, eaves"
侑, "assist"
The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.
with the given name Yū
Yu Aida (裕), a Japanese manga artist and illustrator
Yū Aoi (優), a Japanese actress
Yū Asagiri (夕), a Japanese manga artist
Yū Asakawa (悠), a Japanese voice actress
Yu Darvish (有), an Iranian-Japanese starting pitcher
Yū Hayami (優), a Japanese pop singer and actress
Yuu Kashii (由宇), a Japanese actress and model
Yuu Kikkawa (友), a Japanese pop singer
Yū Kikumura (憂), a member of the Japanese Red Army
Yū Kobayashi (ゆう), a Japanese voice actress
Yū Koyama (ゆう), a Japanese manga artist
Yuu Miyake (優), a Japanese composer and sound engineer
Yū Mizushima (裕), a Japanese voice actor
Yu Nakajima (悠), a Japanese Rubik's Cube solver
Yū Shimaka (裕), a Japanese voice actor
Yuu Shirota (優), a Japanese-Spanish actor and singer
Yuu Shiroyama (優), real name of The Gazette's guitarist Aoi
Yū Sugimoto (ゆう), a Japanese voice actress
Yu Suzuki (裕), a Japanese game designer and producer
Yu Takahashi (高橋 優), a Japanese singer-songwriter
Yū Terashima (優), a Japanese manga artist
Yu Todoroki (悠), a Japanese Takarasienne
Yū Wakui: (優和久井), a Japanese voice actress
Yuu Watase (悠宇), a Japanese shōjo manga artist
Yuu Yabuuchi (優), a Japanese manga artist
Yu Yagami (裕), a Japanese manga artist
Yu Yamada (優), a Ryukyuan model, actress, and singer
Yu Yokoyama (裕), a member of the Japanese idol group Kanjani8
with the given name Yū
Yu Kajima (カジマ), a character from the Gundam anime series
Yuu Asou (麻生 優雨), a character from the Fatal Frame III: The Tormented video game series
Yū Kanda (ユウ), a main character in the manga series D.Gray-man
Yū Komori (ユウ), a main character in Spider-Man: The Manga
Yuu Matsuura (遊), a central character in the shōjo manga series Marmalade Boy
Yū Nishinoya (夕), a character from the Haikyū!! anime series
Yuu Kashima (遊), a character from the Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun anime series
Yu Ominae (優), the main character of the manga series Spriggan
Yu Narukami (鳴上 悠), the official name of the protagonist of Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4
