Given name
Yuji
“retention of members”
Yuji is a given name. It is used in Korean and Taroko.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Yuji goes back to a word meaning “retention of members.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1972. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yuji through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 275
- 275 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2025
- 13 babies
- 2025
- 13
- #6,789 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 13 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 6,789 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 841 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Yuji’s family of names
In Portuguese usage, Yuji has a related form in YUDI.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Yuji
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.