Yūji or Yuji (ゆうじ, ユウジ) is a common masculine Japanese given name.
Yūji can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:
勇二, "courage, second"
祐次, "help, next"
裕司, "abundant, rule"
雄治, "masculine, govern"
悠児, "permanence, child"
The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.
Yūji Fujishiro (裕士, born 1940), Japanese voice actor
Yuji Hino (裕士, born 1985), Japanese professional wrestler
Yuji Horii (雄二, born 1954), Japanese video game designer
Yuji Hirayama (平山ユージ), Japanese professional rock climber
Yuji Iiyama (飯山裕志), Japanese baseball player
Yūji Iwahara (裕二), Japanese manga artist
Yūji Kishi (祐二, born 1970), Japanese actor and voice actor
Yūji Mitsuya (雄二, born 1954), Japanese actor, voice actor, and sound supervisor
Yuji Miura (三浦, born 195?), Japanese ski mountaineer and trail runner
Yuji Nagata (裕志, born 1968), Japanese professional wrestler
Yuji Naka (裕司, born 1965), Japanese video game designer and programmer
Yuji Nakazawa (佑二, born 1978), Japanese football player
Yuji Nakamura (athlete) (中村祐二, born 1970), Japanese long-distance runner
Yuji Nishino (born 1991), Japanese baseball player
Yūji Oda (裕二, born 1967), Japanese actor and singer
Yuji Ohno (雄二), Japanese jazz musician
Yuji Okabayashi (裕二, born 1982), Japanese professional wrestler
Yuji Okano (born 1964), Japanese shot putter
Yūji Takada (裕司, born 1960), Japanese actor and voice actor
Yūji Ueda (ゆうじ, born 1967), Japanese voice actor
Yuji Yamamoto (born 1952), Japanese politician
Yūji Aoki (1945–2003), Japanese manga artist
Yūji (1987-, born Thomas Yuji Gordon), a Japanese-American actor, model, and television personality
With the given name Yūji:
Yuji Sakai (悠二), the main character of the light novel, anime, and manga series Shakugan no Shana
Yuuji (Digimon)
Yuji Kataoka (片岡優二), Soccer Forward who plays for Tourin Junior high in Kattobi Itto
Yuji Torii (鳥居雄司), Sub player for Meiho High in Buttobi Itto
Yuji Tsuji, Forward for Minami Urawa in Buttobi Itto
