# Yuka (name)

Yuka (ゆか, ユカ) and Yūka (ゆうか, ユウカ) are feminine Japanese given names.

## Written forms

Yuka and Yūka can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:
* 由香, "reason, fragrance"
* 由華, "reason, beautiful"
* 由佳, "reason, good"
* 由花, "reason, flower"
* 有佳, "exist, good"
* 有香, "exist, fragrance"
* 有華, "exist, beautiful"
* 優花, "tenderness, flower"
* 優香, "tenderness, fragrance"
* 結花, "link, flower"
The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.

## People
### pronounced Yuka

* Yuka (有香), a Japanese singer
* Yuka (有華) a Japanese singer-songwriter
* Yuka Ando (安藤 友香, born 1994), a Japanese long-distance runner
* Yuka Endo (遠藤 由華, born 1991), a Japanese rhythmic gymnast
* Yuka Fujimori (藤森 由香, born 1986), a Japanese snowboarder
* Yuka Hirano (平野 由佳, born 1987), a Japanese ice hockey player
* Yuka Hirata (裕香), a Japanese actress and gravure idol
* Yuka Honda (ゆか), a Japanese musician
* Yuka Hoshaku (有香), a Japanese actress
* Yuka Iguchi (井口 裕香, born 1988), a Japanese voice actress
* Yuka Imai (由香, born 1970), a Japanese voice actress
* Yuka Inokuchi (有佳), a Japanese voice actress
* Yuka Ishigaki (石垣 優香, born 1989), a Japanese table tennis player
* Yuka Itaya (由夏), a Japanese actress and newscaster
* Yuka Kamino (神野 由佳, born 1980), a Japanese speed skater
* Yuka Kashino (有香), a Japanese singer and a member of Perfume
* Yuka Kato (加藤 ゆか, born 1986), a Japanese swimmer
* Yuka Komatsu (born 1978) a Japanese voice actress
* Yuka Kosaka (由佳), a Japanese gravure idol, actress and model
* Yuka Kuramochi (倉持 由香, born 1991), a Japanese gravure idol, television personality and actress
* Yuka Mitsumori (三森 由佳, born 1972), a Japanese racewalker
* Yuka Motohashi (由香), a Japanese actress
* Yuka Murayama (由佳), a modern Japanese writer
* Yuka Naoi (直井 由香, born 1963), a Japanese goalball player
* Yuka Nukui (貫井 柚佳), a Japanese voice actress
* Yuka Oda (小田 由香, born 1973), a Japanese ice hockey player
* Yuka Onishi (結花), a Japanese actress and singer
* Yuka Orihara (born 2000), a Finnish ice dancer
* Yuka Sakazaki (坂崎 ユカ, born 1992), is a Japanese professional wrestler
* Yūka Sasaki (佐々木 優香, born 1987), a Japanese ten-pin bowler
* 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 Takaoka (高岡由佳, born 1998), a Japanese attempted murderer
* Yuka Terasaki (寺崎 裕香), a Japanese voice actress
* Yuka Tsujiyoko (由佳), a Japanese video game music composer for Nintendo
* Yuka Yoshisako (吉迫 由香, born 1979), a Japanese sailor

### pronounced Yūka

* Yūka (優香), a Japanese actress
* Yūka Kageyama (影山 優佳, born 2001), a member of Hinatazaka46
* Yuka Kinoshita (木下 ゆうか, born 1985), a Japanese YouTuber
* Yuuka Maeda (憂佳), an ex-member of the Hello! Project group S/mileage
* Yuka Momiki (籾木 結花, born 1996), a Japanese women's footballer
* Yuuka Nanri (侑香), a Japanese voice actress and J-Pop singer
* Yuka Nomura (佑香), a Japanese actress
* Yuka Ogata (緒方 夕佳, born 1975), a Japanese politician
* Yuka Saso (笹生 優花), a Japanese professional golfer
* Yūka Setō (勢藤 優花), a Japanese ski jumper
* Yūka Sugai (菅井 友香, born 1995), an ex-member of Sakurazaka46
* Yūka Tano (優花), an ex-member of AKB48

## Fictional characters
### pronounced Yuka

* Yuka Koizumi, a character from Guru Guru Pon-chan
* Yuka Nakagawa, a character from the Battle Royale novel, films and manga from the same name
* Yuka Takeuchi, a character from the Variable Geo fighting game series
* Yuka, one of Kagome's schoolmates from InuYasha
* Yuka, a character from Elfen Lied
* Yuka Sanada, a character from Genseishin Justirisers
* Yuka Mochida, a character from Corpse Party
* Yuka Kon, a character from World Trigger
* Yuka Osada, a character from Kamen Rider 555
* Yuka Ohta, a character from Ultraman Z

### pronounced Yūka

* Yūka Kazami, a character from the Touhou Project danmaku game series
* Yūka Ichijō, a character from AKB0048
* Yūka Hayase, a character from the role-playing game Blue Archive