Minami (name)
Minami is both a Japanese surname and a feminine Japanese given name.
Written forms
As a surname, Minami is most frequently written in kanji as, meaning "south". Minami is shared by 100,000+ individuals in Japan. The remaining variants are used by less than 2,000 individuals each and are generally used by related families.As a given name, Minami may be written as simply "みなみ" and rarely "ミナミ", or it can be written using different kanji characters or a mix of hiragana and kanji to convey different meanings, such as:
People with the surname
- Akina Minami, Japanese gravure idol and tarento
- Dale Minami, Japanese American lawyer
- Eiko Minami, Japanese dancer
- Haruka Minami, Japanese manga artist
- Haruo Minami, Japanese enka singer
- Hikari Minami, Japanese professional wrestler
- Hiroaki Minami, Japanese composer
- Jirō Minami, Japanese general and convicted World War II war criminal
- Kaho Minami, Japanese actress
- Katsuyuki Minami, Japanese volleyball player
- Kunzo Minami, Japanese painter
- Moeka Minami, Japanese women's footballer
- Omi Minami, Japanese voice actress, essayist and columnist
- Yoshiharu Minami, Japanese judoka
- Yoshikazu Minami, Japanese professional shogi player
- Yoshitaka Minami, Japanese musician
- Yuta Minami, Japanese footballer
People with the given name
Women
- Minami (actress), Japanese actress
- Minami (singer), Japanese singer
- Minami Ando, Japanese table tennis player
- Minami Aoyama, Japanese pink film actress and AV idol
- Minami Hamabe, Japanese actress
- Minami Hokuto, Japanese voice actress
- Minami Iju, Japanese women's basketball player
- Minami Itahashi, Japanese diver
- Minami Kato, Japanese idol, singer and former member of NGT48
- Minami Kuribayashi, Japanese singer-songwriter and voice actress
- Minami Minegishi, Japanese idol and member of AKB48 and no3b
- Minami Otomo, Japanese actress and model
- Minami Ozaki, Japanese manga artist, also known as Ryo Minami and Minami Himemuro
- Minami Sadamasu, Japanese professional shogi player
- Minami Takahashi, Japanese singer, tarento, and former member of AKB48
- Minami Takayama, Japanese voice actress, narrator, singer and composer
- Minami Tanaka, Japanese voice actress
- Minami Tanaka (announcer), announcer and tarento
- Minami Yamanouchi, Japanese long-distance runner
Men
- Minami Aoyama, male Japanese translator, essayist, American literary researcher, literary critic, picture book writer, real name Shigeru Sugiyama
- Minami Ichikawa, male Japanese film producer
Fictional characters
;As a given name- Minami Amada, a character in the manga Jormungand
- Minami Hayama, a character in the Japanese television drama Long Vacation
- Minami Iwasaki, a character in the Japanese multimedia franchise Lucky Star
- Minami Kaido, a character in the anime series Go! Princess PreCure
- Minami Katayama, a character in the manga and anime series Wake Up, Girls!
- Minami Kotobuki, a character in manga and anime series Oshi no Ko
- Minami Maki, a character in the manga Majitora!
- Minami Nanba, a male character in the manga Hana-Kimi
- Minami Sakurai, a character in the web novel series The Irregular at Magic High School
- Minami Shimada, a character in the light novel series Baka and Test
- Minami Takahashi, a character in the anime series AKB0048
- Minami Toba, a character in the manga series Laid-Back Camp
- The Minami sisters, Kana, and Chiaki ), characters in the manga series Minami-ke
- Itsuki Minami, a character in the anime and manga series Air Gear
- Kaori Minami, a character in the Japanese multimedia franchise Battle Royale
- Ken Minami, a character in the manga Machine Robo Rescue
- Kenjirō Minami, a character in the anime and manga series Yuri on Ice
- Kohtaro Minami, a character in the Japanese superhero drama series Kamen Rider Black and Kamen Rider Black RX
- Kotori Minami, a character in the Japanese multimedia franchise Love Live! School Idol Project
- Mirei Minami, a character in the Japanese multimedia franchise Pripara
- Rena Minami, a character in the anime series Puella Magi Madoka Magica
- Shizuku Minami, a character in the manga Sakura Trick
- Tsuyoshi Minami, a character in the manga Slam Dunk
- Youichi Minami, a character in the manga Gokusen
- Yuko Minami, a character in the Japanese superhero drama series ''Ultraman Ace''