Yumi (name)

Yumi is a feminine Japanese and Korean given name.

Japanese name

Yumi (ゆみ, ユミ) 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

• Yumi Adachi (安達 祐実, born 1981), Japanese actress and singer
• Yumi Adachi (synchronised swimmer) (足立 夢実, born 1989), 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
• Yumi Inomata (猪又 由美, born 1968), Japanese cross-country skier
• Yumi Iwabuchi (岩渕 有美), Japanese Olympic softball player
• Yumi Kaeriyama (帰山 由美, born 1967), Japanese speed skater
• Yumi Kakazu (嘉数 由美, born 1973), Japanese voice actress
• Yumi Kida (貴田 裕美), 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 Shimura (志村 由美, born 1982), 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
• Yumi Suzuki (鈴木 夕湖, born 1991), 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
• Yumi Watanabe (渡邊 由美, born 1970), 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 common feminine Korean given name.

Orthography

The meaning of the name differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable. There are 62 hanja with the reading "yu" and 33 hanja with the reading "mi" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names. Some examples include:

• 有美, "having beauty"
• 遊美, "wandering beauty"
• 柔美, "gentle beauty"

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 (born 1991), South Korean football player
• Lee Yoo-mi (born 1994), South Korean actress
• Patty Yumi Cottrell (born 1981), South Korean-born American writer

Fictional characters

• Kim Yumi, the titular protagonist of South Korean webtoon and drama Yumi's Cells

References

See also

• Yumi
• Yumi (disambiguation)