Yumi (name)
Yumi is a feminine Japanese and Korean given name.
Japanese name
Yumi 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"
Given name
- Yumi Adachi, Japanese actress and singer
- Yumi Adachi (synchronised swimmer), Japanese synchronized swimmer
- Yumi Asō, Japanese actress
- Yumi Hara, Japanese voice actress
- Yumi Hotta, Japanese manga artist
- Yumi Inomata, Japanese cross-country skier
- Yumi Iwabuchi, Japanese Olympic softball player
- Yumi Kaeriyama, Japanese speed skater
- Yumi Kakazu, Japanese voice actress
- Yumi Kida, Japanese long-distance swimmer
- Yumi Kobayashi, Japanese fashion model
- Yumi Kokamo, retired female long-distance runner from Japan
- Yumi Kumakura, Japanese volleyball player
- Yumi Maruyama, Japanese former Olympic volleyball player
- Yumi Matsutoya, Japanese singer
- Yumi Matsuzawa, Japanese singer
- Yumi Morio, Japanese voice actress
- Yumi Nakashima, Japanese singer
- Yumi Ohka, Japanese professional wrestler
- Yumi Rodrigues, Brazilian rhythmic gymnast
- Yumi Shimura, Japanese voice actress
- Yumi Shirakawa, former Japanese actress
- Yumi Stynes, Australian disc jockey for the Australian Channel V
- Yumi Sugimoto, Japanese actress
- Yumi Suzuki, Japanese curler
- Yumi Takada, Japanese voice actress
- Yumi Tōma, Japanese voice actress and singer
- Yumi Watanabe, Japanese women's footballer
- Yumi Yoshimura, the second half of the singing duo Puffy AmiYumi
- Yumi Yoshiyuki, Japanese film director, actress, and screenwriter
Surname
- Kaoru Yumi, 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, 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, a character from the anime and manga series Soul Eater
- Sayaka Yumi, a character from the anime and manga series Mazinger Z
- Yumi Omura 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, a character in the action-adventure video game Yakuza
- Yumi Miyamoto, a character from the Detective Conan manga and anime series
- Corporal Yumi Nagumo, 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, also spelled Yoomi, is a Korean given name.People
- Yumi Hogan, South Korean-born American artist and former first lady of Maryland
- Ha Yoo-mi, South Korean actress
- Kim Yoo-mi (actress), South Korean actress
- Han Yoo-mi, South Korean volleyball player
- Hwang Yu-mi, 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, South Korean field hockey player
- Kim Yu-mi (beauty pageant titleholder), South Korean beauty pageant titleholder
- Kang Yu-mi (footballer), South Korean football player
- Lee Yoo-mi, South Korean actress
- Patty Yumi Cottrell, South Korean-born American writer
- Kang Yu-mi (comedian), South Korean comedian
Fictional characters
- Kim Yumi, the titular protagonist of South Korean webtoon and drama ''Yumi's Cells''
Chinese name
People
- Yumi Chung, Hong Kong-born Filipino singer and actress