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Yuji

#6,785 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Yuji has been given to 275 babies in the U.S. since 1972. In 2025 it ranked #6,785 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Yuji, 2025

1 in 255,000

Yuji over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yuji: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yuji means

Yuji is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Yuji is used in Taroko.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 275 boys were recorded with the name Yuji between 1972 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2025; its best national rank was #4,996 in 1982.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,536 in 2015 to #6,785 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Yuji?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 131,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,785
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yuji sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yuji. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yujis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yuji was born before 2001 — so the typical Yuji is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
21.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
50.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
275
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 21.1% of all recorded uses (58).

Is Yuji rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+3,072
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,751
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.63×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (13)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,996
1982

Spellings of Yuji

Yuji is not the most common spelling — Yuri is, with 20.0% against Yuji's 2.2%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Yuji is used

Across 1910–2025, Yuji was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,025,453 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Yuji has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yuji around the world

Where Yuji ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2024–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • France
    2024–2024
    #6,509
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2017–2017
    #2,569
    in 2017

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Yuji by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,785
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#4,996
1982
Peak year
2025
13 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
275
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Yuji

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

YujinRyujiYujunShujiKatsuji

Sibling names for Yuji

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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