Yumi (name)

Yumi

Gender	female
Origin
Word/name	Japanese
Meaning	different meanings depending on the kanji used
Other names
Related names	Yumiko

For other uses, see Yumi (disambiguation).

Yumi (ゆみ, ユミ) is a common feminine Japanese given name which is occasionally used as a surname.

Possible writings

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

• 由美, "reason/cause, beauty"
• 裕美, "abundant, beauty"
• 夕実, "evening, fruit"
• 優美, "tenderness, beauty"
• 裕未, "abundant, not yet"
• 悠美, "permanence, beauty"
• 祐美, "help, God's blessing, beauty"
• 由実, "reason/cause, fruit"
• 有美, "existing/possessing beauty"
• 夕美, "evening, beauty"
• 友美, "friend, beauty"

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

People

with the given name Yumi

• Yumi Adachi (祐実), a Japanese actress
• Yumi Hotta (由美), a Japanese manga artist
• Yumi Kakazu (ゆみ), a Japanese voice actress
• Yumi Kobayashi (優美), a Japanese fashion model
  • Yumi Uno, Yumi Kobayashi's former show-business name
• Yumi Matsutoya (由実), a Japanese singer
• Yumi Nakashima (優美), a Japanese singer
• Yumi Shizukusa (由実), a Japanese singer
• Yumi Stynes, an Australian disc jockey for the Australian Channel V
• Yumi Sugimoto (有美), a Japanese actress
• Yumi Takada (由美), a Japanese voice actress
• Yumi Tōma (由美), a Japanese voice actress and singer
• Yumi Yoshimura (由美), the second half of the singing duo Puffy AmiYumi
• Yumi Matsuzawa (由美), a Japanese singer

with the surname Yumi

• Kaoru Yumi (由美), a Japanese actress

Fictional characters

with the given name Yumi

• Yumi (Sayaka in the European and Japanese versions), a character in the video game Ape Escape
• Yumi, a character in the American animated television series Hi Hi Puffy Amiyumi
• Yumi Fukuzawa (祐巳), the main character from the novel, manga, and anime series Maria-sama ga Miteru
• Yumi Ishiyama, a character in the French animated television series Code Lyoko
• Yumi Tsoi, an inconsistently-minded, non-carbon alien character. Lives entirely in Artem Syrmolotov's imagination
• Yumi Nakamura (由美), the protagonist of the J-horror Chakushin Ari
• Yumi Omura (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 (由美), a character in the action-adventure video game Yakuza

with the surname Yumi

• Sayaka Yumi (弓), a character from the Mazinger manga and anime series