Kumiko

For other uses, see Kumiko (disambiguation).

Kumiko

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

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

Possible writings

Kumiko 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

• Kumiko Asō (久美子), a Japanese actress
• Kumiko Akiyoshi (久美子), a Japanese actress
• Kumiko Ogura (久美子), a Japanese female badminton player
• Kumiko Nakano (公美子), a Japanese actress
• Kumiko Goto (久美子), a Japanese model, actress and wife of Jean Alesi
• Kumiko Takeda (久美子), a Japanese actress and model
• Kumiko Hayashi (久美子), a Japanese politician
• Kumiko Aihara (久美子), a Japanese politician
• Kumiko Nishihara (久美子, born 1965), a Japanese voice actress
• Kumiko Watanabe (久美子, born 1965), a Japanese actress and voice actress
• Kumiko Takahashi (animator) (高橋 久美子), Japanese animator and character designer
• Kumiko Takahashi (singer) (高橋 久美子, born 1954), Japanese singer
• Kumiko Takahashi (writer) (高橋 久美子, born 1982), Japanese writer
• Kumiko Okamoto (久美子), a Japanese retired female tennis player
• Kumiko Sato (久美子), a Japanese figure skating coach
• Kumiko Ikeda (久美子), a Japanese long jumper
• Kumiko Koiwai (久美子), a former Japanese figure skater
• Kumiko Yokoyama (横山 久美子, born 1972), Japanese cross-country skier

Fictional characters

• Kumiko (character), a character portrayed by Tamlyn Tomita in The Karate Kid Part II (1986) and Cobra Kai (2021)
• Kumiko Yamaguchi (久美子), the main character in the manga, anime, and television drama series Gokusen
• Kumiko Okada (久美子), a character in Haruki Murakami's novel The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
• Kumiko Ōmae (久美子), the protagonist of the novel series Sound! Euphonium
• Kumiko Tanaka?, the little daughter of Mr. Tanaka in Memoirs of a Geisha
• Kumiko, title character in the 2014 American drama film Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
• Kumiko "The Bullet", pilot of one of the playable machines in F-Zero: Maximum Velocity
• Kumiko Albertson, a recurring character in The Simpsons

See also

• 4454 Kumiko, main-belt Asteroid
• Kumikō, a game of kōdō
• kumiko, the pieces of lattice work in shoji