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 Code Lyoko: Evolution 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 Need for Speed: Carbon.
Korean name
Yumi (유미), also spelled Yoomi, is a Korean given name.
People Yumi Hogan (born 1959), South Korean-born American artist and former first lady of Maryland Ha Yoo-mi (born 1963), South Korean actress Kim Yoo-mi (actress) (born 1980), South Korean actress Han Yoo-mi (born 1982), South Korean volleyball player Hwang Yu-mi (born 1983), South Korean badminton player Jung Yu-mi (actress, born 1983), South Korean actress Jeong Yu-mi (actress, born 1984), South Korean actress Jeon Yu-mi (born 1988), South Korean field hockey player Kim Yu-mi (beauty pageant titleholder) (born 1990), South Korean beauty pageant titleholder Kang Yu-mi (footballer) (born 1991), South Korean football player Lee Yoo-mi (born 1994), South Korean actress Patty Yumi Cottrell (born 1981), South Korean-born American writer Kang Yu-mi (comedian) (born 1983), South Korean comedian
Fictional characters Kim Yumi, the titular protagonist of South Korean webtoon and drama Yumi's Cells
Chinese name
People Yumi Chung (born 2006), Hong Kong-born Filipino singer and actress
References
See also Yumi Yumi (disambiguation)