Mayumi (まゆみ, マユミ) is a common Japanese given name particularly for females.
Mayumi can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:
真弓, "truth, bow"
真由美, "truth, reason, beauty"
眞由美, "truth, reason, beauty"
麻由美, "linen, reason, beauty"
真有美, "truth, exist, beauty"
真優美, "truth, gentle, beauty"
檀, "spindle tree"
The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.
Mayumi Aoki (まゆみ) a Japanese swimmer
Mayumi Asaka (真由美), a Japanese actress
Mayumi Asano (まゆみ), a Japanese voice actress
Mayumi Azuma (まゆみ), a Japanese manga artist
Mayumi Heene, see Balloon boy hoax
Mayumi Hidaka (真弓), a Japanese actress
Mayumi Horikawa (まゆみ), a Japanese model and singer-songwriter
Mayumi Iizuka (雅弓), a Japanese voice actress and J-pop singer
Mayumi Ichikawa (真弓), a Japanese long-distance runner
Mayumi Itō (b. 1976), Japanese ski mountaineer
Mayumi Itsuwa (真弓), a Japanese female singer
Mayumi Moriyama (真弓), a Japanese politician
Mayumi Narita (真由美), a Japanese swimmer
Mayumi Ogawa (眞由美), a Japanese actress
Mayumi Ozaki (魔弓), a Japanese female professional wrestler
Mayumi Ōzora (眞弓), a Japanese actress
Mayumi Raheem, a Sri Lankan swimmer
Mayumi Sada (真由美), a Japanese actress
Mayumi Shintani (真弓), a Japanese voice actress and actress
Mayumi Suzuki (まゆみ), a Japanese voice actress
Mayumi Tanaka (真弓), a Japanese voice actress
Mayumi Wakamura (麻由美), a Japanese actress
Mayumi Yamaguchi (眞弓), a Japanese voice actress
Mayumi Yamamoto (真由美) a Japanese actress
Mayumi Yoshida (真弓), a Japanese voice actress
Mayumi Tendo (真弓), a character in the novel, comic and film Battle Royale
Mayumi Kinniku (真弓), a character in the comic Kinnikuman and its sequel Ultimate Muscle
Mayumi Thyme (真弓), a character in the visual novel SHUFFLE!
Mayumi (マユミ), a character in the Psychiatrist Irabu series of short stories
Mayumi, a character in the film Urduja
Mayumi Saegusa (七草 真由美), a character in the light novel series The Irregular at Magic High School
