Mayumi (name)
Mayumi is a common Japanese given name particularly for females.Possible writings
Mayumi can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:
- 真弓 or 眞弓, "truth, bow" or "spindle tree", also used a male given name and surname
- 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 or katakana.
Mayumi also means "modest" or "demure" in Filipino.People
Given name
- Mayumi Aoki a Japanese swimmer
- Mayumi Asaka, a Japanese actress
- Mayumi Asano, a Japanese voice actress
- Mayumi Azuma, a Japanese manga artist
- Mayumi Heene, see Balloon boy hoax
- Mayumi Hachiya, Kim Hyon-hui's Japanese cover name
- Mayumi Hidaka, a Japanese actress
- Mayumi Horikawa, a Japanese model and singer-songwriter
- Mayumi Iizuka, a Japanese voice actress and J-pop singer
- Mayumi Ichikawa, a Japanese long-distance runner
- Mayumi Itō, Japanese ski mountaineer
- Mayumi Itsuwa, a Japanese female singer
- Mayumi Moriyama, a Japanese politician
- Mayumi Narita, a Japanese swimmer
- Mayumi Ogawa, a Japanese actress
- Mayumi Ozaki, a Japanese female professional wrestler
- Mayumi Raheem, a Sri Lankan swimmer
- Mayumi Sada, a Japanese actress
- Mayumi Shintani, a Japanese voice actress and actress
- Mayumi Suzuki, a Japanese voice actress
- Mayumi Tanaka, a Japanese voice actress
- Mayumi Wakamura, a Japanese actress
- Mayumi Watanabe, Japanese sprinter
- Mayumi Yamaguchi, a Japanese voice actress
- Mayumi Yamamoto, multiple people
- Mayumi Yoshida, a Japanese voice actress
Surname
- Akinobu Mayumi, a Japanese baseball player
Fictional characters
- Mayumi, a character in the Psychiatrist Irabu series of short stories
- Mayumi, a character in the film Urduja
- Mayumi Kino, a character in the manga and OVA Blue Submarine No. 6
- Mayumi Kinniku, a male character in the comic Kinnikuman and its sequel Ultimate Muscle
- Mayumi Tendo, a character in the novel, comic and film Battle Royale
- Mayumi Thyme, a character in the visual novel SHUFFLE!
- Mayumi Saegusa, a character in the light novel series The Irregular at Magic High School
