Yumi is a Japanese or Korean name.
Yumi (ゆみ, ユミ,) is a common feminine Japanese given name which is occasionally used as a surname.
Yumi can be written using different kanji characters and as a given name can mean:
由美, "reason/cause, beauty"裕美, "abundant, beauty"夕実, "evening, fruit"優美, "tenderness, beauty"'裕未, "abundant, not yet"悠美, "permanence, beauty"祐美, "help, God's blessing, beauty"由実, "reason/cause, fruit"有美, "existing/possessing beauty"夕美, "evening, beauty"友美, "friend, beauty"The given name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.
with the given name YumiYumi Adachi (安達 祐実), Japanese actressYumi Asou (奥村 由美), Japanese actressYumi Hara (原 由実), Japanese voice actressYumi Hotta (堀田 由美), Japanese manga artistYumi Iwabuchi (岩渕 有美), Japanese Olympic softball playerYumi Kakazu (嘉数 由美), Japanese voice actressYumi Kobayashi (小林優美), Japanese fashion modelYumi Kokamo (小鴨 由水), retired female long-distance runner from JapanYumi Kumakura (熊倉 由美), Japanese volleyball playerYumi Maruyama (丸山 由美), Japanese former Olympic volleyball playerYumi Matsutoya (松任谷 由実), Japanese singerYumi Matsuzawa (松澤 由美), Japanese singerYumi Morio (河合 由美), Japanese voice actressYumi Nakashima (中島 優美), Japanese singerYumi Ohka (阿部 由美子), Japanese professional wrestlerYumi Shirakawa (白川 由美), former Japanese actressYumi Stynes, Australian disc jockey for the Australian Channel VYumi Sugimoto (杉本 有美), Japanese actressYumi Takada (高田 由美), Japanese voice actressYumi Tōma (冬馬 由美 (吉田 由美), Japanese voice actress and singerYumi Yoshimura (吉村 由美), the second half of the singing duo Puffy AmiYumiYumi Yoshiyuki (吉行由美), Japanese film director, actress, and screenwriterwith the surname YumiKaoru Yumi (由美かおる), Japanese actressYumi (Ape Escape), a character in the video game Ape EscapeYumi Yoshimura, a character in the Japanese-American animated television series Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumiYumi Fukuzawa (福沢 祐巳), the main character from the novel, manga, and anime series Maria-sama ga MiteruYumi Ishiyama, a main character in the French animated television series Code Lyoko and Code Lyoko: EvolutionYumi Tsoi, an inconsistently-minded, non-carbon alien character. Lives entirely in Artem Syrmolotov's imaginationYumi Azusa, a character from the anime and manga series Soul EaterYumi Omura (大村裕美) and yumi the persocom, two characters in the manga and anime series ChobitsYumi Ozawa, a character from Persona 4Yumi Sakata, a character in shōjo manga series Doubt!!Yumi Sawamura (澤村 由美), a character in the action-adventure video game YakuzaSayaka Yumi (弓さやか), a character from the Mazinger manga and anime seriesYumi Miyamoto, a character from the Detective Conan manga and anime seriesCorporal Yumi Nagumo, the main character of "Marine Corps Yumi" manga seriesYumi Komagata, a character from anime and manga series Rurouni KenshinYumi (유미), also spelled Yoomi, is a common feminine Korean given name.
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"Ha Yoo-mi (born 1965), South Korean actressKim Yoo-mi (actress) (born 1980), South Korean actressHan Yoo-mi (born 1982), South Korean volleyball playerHwang Yu-mi (born 1983), South Korean badminton playerJung Yu-mi (actress born 1983), South Korean actressJeong Yu-mi (actress born 1984), South Korean actressJeon Yu-mi (born 1988), South Korean field hockey playerKim Yu-mi (Miss Korea) (born 1990), South Korean beauty pageant titleholderKang Yu-mi (born 1991), South Korean football playerBae Yu-mi, South Korean singer, member of M.I.L.K
