Mayumi (name)

Mayumi (まゆみ, マユミ) is a common Japanese given name for females.

Written forms

Mayumi can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:

• 麻弓, "linen, bow"
• 真弓 or 眞弓, "truth, bow" or "spindle tree"
• 檀, "spindle tree"
• 雅弓, "elegant, bow"
• 真由美 or 眞由美, "truth, reason, beauty"
• 麻由美, "linen, reason, beauty"
• 真有美, "truth, exist, beauty"
• 真優美, "truth, gentle, beauty"

The name can also be written in hiragana as まゆみ or katakana as マユミ.

People

Given name

• 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 Gojo (born 1972), a Japanese singer
• Mayumi Heene, see Balloon boy hoax
• Mayumi Hachiya (真由美), Kim Hyon-hui's Japanese cover name
• 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 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 Raheem, a Sri Lankan swimmer
• Mayumi Sada (真由美), a Japanese actress
• Mayumi Shō (born 1965), a Japanese voice actress
• Mayumi Shintani (真弓), a Japanese voice actress and actress
• Mayumi Suzuki (まゆみ), a Japanese voice actress
• Mayumi Tanaka (真弓, born 1955), a Japanese voice actress
• Mayumi Wakamura (麻由美), a Japanese actress
• , Japanese sprinter
• Mayumi Yamaguchi (眞弓, born 1975), a Japanese voice actress
• Mayumi Yamamoto (disambiguation), multiple people
• Mayumi Yoshida (真弓), a Japanese voice actress

Fictional characters

• Mayumi (マユミ), a character in the Psychiatrist Irabu series of short stories
• Mayumi, a character in the film Urduja
• Mayumi Kino (真弓), a character in the manga and OVA Blue Submarine No. 6
• Mayumi Kisumi (まゆみ), a character in the anime Smile PreCure!
• Mayumi Kubota (真弓), a character in the Nickelodeon/Netflix series Glitch Techs
• Mayumi Kinniku (真弓), a male character in the comic Kinnikuman and its sequel Ultimate Muscle
• Mayumi Tendo (真弓), a character in the novel, comic and film Battle Royale
• Mayumi Thyme (真弓), a character in the visual novel SHUFFLE!
• Mayumi Saegusa (真由美), a character in the light novel series The Irregular at Magic High School
• Mayumi Joutouguu (磨弓), a character in Wily Beast and Weakest Creature from the video game series Touhou Project
• Mayumi Nishikino (麻弓), a character in the manga and anime series The Kawai Complex Guide to Manors and Hostel Behavior

See also

• Mayumi (disambiguation)