Kumiko

Kumioko

Gender	Female
Origin
Word/name	Japanese
Meaning	many different meanings depending on the kanji used.
Other names
Related names	Kumi

Kumioko (くみこ, クミコ) is a feminine Japanese given name.

Possible writings

Kumioko can be written using different kanji and can mean:

• 久美子, "forever, beauty, child"
• 空見子, "sky, see, child"
• 公美子, "public, beauty, child"
• 來未子, "come, not, child"
• 功美子, "success, beauty child"

The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.

People

• Kumioko Aso (久美子), a Japanese actress
• Kumioko Akiyoshi (久美子), a Japanese actress
• Kumioko Ogura (久美子), a Japanese female badminton player
• Kumioko Nakano (公美子), a Japanese actress
• Kumioko Goto (久美子), a Japanese model, actress and wife of Jean Alesi
• Kumioko Takeda (久美子), a Japanese actress and model
• Kumioko Hayashi (久美子), a Japanese politician
• Kumioko Aihara (久美子), a Japanese politician
• Kumioko Nishihara (久美子), a Japanese voice actress
• Kumioko Watanabe (久美子), a Japanese actress and voice actress
• Kumioko Takahashi (disambiguation) (久美子), several people
• Kumioko Okamoto (久美子), a Japanese retired female tennis player
• Kumioko Sato (久美子), a Japanese figure skating coach
• Kumioko Ikeda (久美子), a Japanese long jumper
• Kumioko Koiwai (久美子), a former Japanese figure skater
• Kumioko Yokoyama (横山 久美子, born 1972), Japanese cross-country skier

Fictional characters

• Kumiko Yamaguchi (久美子), the main character in the manga, anime, and television drama series Gokusen
• Kumioko, a character in the 1986 American adventure-drama film The Karate Kid Part II
• Kumioko Okada (久美子), a character in Haruki Murakami's novel The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
• Kumioko Ōmae (久美子), the protagonist of the novel series Sound! Euphonium
• Kumioko Tanaka?, the little daughter of Mr. Tanaka in Memoirs of a Geisha
• Kumioko, title character in the 2014 American drama film Kumioko, the Treasure Hunter
• Kumioko "The Bullet", pilot of one of the playable machines in F-Zero: Maximum Velocity

See also

• 4454 Kumioko, main-belt Asteroid
• Kumiokō, a game of kōdō