Yumi (name)

Yumi is a feminine Japanese and Korean given name.

Japanese name

is a common feminine Japanese given name which is occasionally used as a surname.

Orthography

Yumi can be written using different kanji characters and as a given name can mean:

• 由美, "origin/history, beauty"
• 裕美, "abundance, beauty"
• 夕実, "evening, fruition"
• 優美, "tenderness, beauty"'
• 裕未, "abundance, less than"
• 悠美, "permanence, beauty"
• 祐美, "savior, beauty"
• 由実, "origin/history, fruition"
• 有美, "exist, beauty"
• 夕美, "evening, beauty"
• 友美, "friend, beauty"

The given name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.

Given name

• , Japanese actress and singer
• , Japanese synchronized swimmer
• Yumi Asō (奥村 由美), Japanese actress
• Yumi Hara (原 由実, born 1985), Japanese voice actress
• Yumi Hotta (堀田 由美), Japanese manga artist
• , Japanese cross-country skier
• Yumi Iwabuchi (岩渕 有美), Japanese Olympic softball player
• , Japanese speed skater
• Yumi Kakazu (嘉数 由美, born 1973), Japanese voice actress
• , Japanese long-distance swimmer
• Yumi Kobayashi (小林優美), Japanese fashion model
• Yumi Kokamo (小鴨 由水), retired female long-distance runner from Japan
• Yumi Kumakura (熊倉 由美), Japanese volleyball player
• Yumi Maruyama (丸山 由美), Japanese former Olympic volleyball player
• Yumi Matsutoya (松任谷 由実), Japanese singer
• Yumi Matsuzawa (松澤 由美), Japanese singer
• Yumi Morio (河合 由美), Japanese voice actress
• Yumi Nakashima (中島 優美), Japanese singer
• Yumi Ohka (阿部 由美子), Japanese professional wrestler
• Yumi Rodrigues (born 2008), Brazilian rhythmic gymnast
• , Japanese voice actress
• Yumi Shirakawa (白川 由美), former Japanese actress
• Yumi Stynes, Australian disc jockey for the Australian Channel V
• Yumi Sugimoto (杉本 有美), Japanese actress
• , Japanese curler
• Yumi Takada (高田 由美), Japanese voice actress
• Yumi Tōma (冬馬 由美 (吉田 由美), Japanese voice actress and singer
• , Japanese women's footballer
• Yumi Yoshimura (吉村 由美), the second half of the singing duo Puffy AmiYumi
• Yumi Yoshiyuki (吉行由美), Japanese film director, actress, and screenwriter

Surname

• Kaoru Yumi (由美かおる), Japanese actress as a stage name

Fictional characters

• Yumi, Otakuthon mascot
• Yumi (Ape Escape), a character in the video game Ape Escape
• Yumi Yoshimura, a character in the Japanese-American animated television series Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi
• Yumi Fukuzawa (福沢 祐巳), the main character from the novel, manga, and anime series Maria-sama ga Miteru
• Yumi Ishiyama, a main character in the French animated television series Code Lyoko and '
• Yumi Tsoi, an inconsistently-minded, non-carbon alien character. Lives entirely in Artem Syrmolotov's imagination
• Farmer Yumi, on the animated television show Paw Patrol
• Azusa Yumi (弓 梓), a character from the anime and manga series Soul Eater
• Sayaka Yumi (弓 さやか), a character from the anime and manga series Mazinger Z
• Yumi Omura (大村裕美) and yumi the persocom, two characters in the manga and anime series Chobits
• Yumi Ozawa, a character from Persona 4
• Yumi Sakata, a character in shōjo manga series Doubt!!
• Yumi Sawamura (澤村 由美), a character in the action-adventure video game Yakuza
• Yumi Miyamoto, a character from the Detective Conan manga and anime series
• Corporal Yumi Nagumo (南雲弓), the main character of Marine Corps Yumi manga series. Uses the kanji 弓 "bow".
• Yumi Komagata, a character from anime and manga series Rurouni Kenshin
• Yumi from the Senran Kagura fighting video game franchise
• Aiko Yumi, a Japanese college professor and a dateable character in the dating simulation videogame HuniePop
• Yumi, a recruitable crew member in .