Yuka (ゆか, ユカ) and Yūka (ゆうか, ユウカ) are feminine Japanese given names.
Yuka and Yūka can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:
only for Yuka
由香, "reason, fragrance"
由華, "reason, beautiful"
由佳, "reason, good"
由花, "reason, flower"
結花
for both Yuka and Yūka
有佳, "exist, good"
有香, "exist, fragrance"
優花, "tenderness, flower"
優香, "tenderness, fragrance"
The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.
pronounced Yuka
Yuka (有香), a Japanese singer
Yuka Honda (ゆか), a Japanese musician
Yuka Imai (由香), a Japanese voice actress
Yuka Iguchi (井口 裕香), a Japanese voice actress
Yuka Inokuchi (有佳), a Japanese voice actress
Yuka Kashino (有香), a Japanese singer in a Jpop group Perfume
Yuka Konan, a Japanese model from the Nicola magazine
Yuka Kosaka (由佳), a Japanese gravure idol, actress and model
Yuka Koyama (裕香), a Japanese voice actress
Yuka Murayama (由佳), a modern Japanese writer
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 Terasaki (寺崎 裕香), a Japanese voice actress
Yuka Tokumitsu (由禾), a Japanese voice actress
Yuka Tsujiyoko (由佳), a Japanese video game music composer for Nintendo
Yuka Yamashita (由華), a Japanese VJ model and DJ
pronounced Yūka
Yūka (優香), a Japanese actress
Yūka Kawashima, a Japanese singer, ex-member of Jpop group Perfume
Yuuka Maeda (憂佳), a former member of the Hello! Project group S/mileage
Yuuka Nanri (侑香), a Japanese voice actress and J-Pop singer
Yuka Nomura (佑香), a Japanese actress
Yuka Tamada, an Indonesian Singer (4th Winner of Indonesian Idol 8)
pronounced Yuka
Yuka Koizumi of Guru Guru Pon-chan
Yuka Nakagawa, a character in the Battle Royale novel, films and manga from the same name
Yuka Takeuchi, a character in the Variable Geo fighting game series
Yuka, one of Kagome's schoolmates from InuYasha
Yuka, a character in Elfen Lied
Yuka Mochida, a fictional character from Corpse Party
Yuka Kon, a fictional character from World Trigger
pronounced Yūka
Yūka Kazami, a character in the Touhou Project danmaku game series
Yūka Ichijō, a character in AKB0048
