Yumi

given name · Japanese · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Yumi is a given name, most frequently recorded in Japan, where it is the 38th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Japanese and Portuguese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Rōmaji transcription of ゆみ.

rarermore common
  • JPJapan1 in 917◐
  • KRSouth Korea1 in 1.1K
  • USUnited States1 in 141K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈4.6K ●

across 9 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
179 ●

108K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 136K ◐

Brazil

Spellings & scripts●

YumiLatin · Japanese●85K records
유미Hangul · Korean●56K records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled 유미 in KR South Korea, MO Macao, Yoomi in AU Australia, DE Germany and Youmi in FR France.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Rōmaji transcription of ゆみ

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Yumi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
JP Japan#3878,81170K rec.——Yumi146
KR South Korea#20157,69828K rec.——유미88
US United States—2,3586.4K rec.1 in 141K2.4KYumi179
BR Brazil—1,561△1 rec.1 in 136K1.6K—1
TW Taiwan—618101 rec.——Yumi46
FR France—470△167 rec.1 in 144K470Youmi39
PH Philippines—439192 rec.——Yumi25
MY Malaysia—355268 rec.——Yumi21
HK Hong Kong#512320277 rec.——Yumi19
CA Canada—304307 rec.—2Yumi29
CN China—26850 rec.——Yumi14
GB United Kingdom—253214 rec.—listedYumi42

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Japanese85K60%
  • Portuguese25K18%
  • English12K9%
  • Spanish4.1K3%
  • French2.8K2%
Show as table
Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Japanese84,51460%
Portuguese25,38718%
English12,1179%
Spanish4,1493%
French2,7982%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Yumi is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese given name35K records spelled Yumi7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Peru, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Yumí, Yu-Mi, Yumï

  • English given name15K records spelled Yumi9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Australia, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Yu-Mi, Yūmi

  • French given name3.1K records spelled Yumi3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Peru, Malaysia

    Also written Yu-Mi

  • Indonesian given name2.1K records spelled Yumi4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, Peru, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Yu-Mi

  • a separate given name1.7K records spelled Yumi3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Yümi, Yumì

  • a separate given name1.3K records spelled Yumi2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, United Kingdom, India

    Also written Yu-Mi

53 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Yumi is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Spanish, Significado: Oso

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

  • In acu, celestial water : water from the sky, i.e. rainwater, or — under certain circumstances — water from a river which is used in making manioc beer

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In tcs, the first person dual inclusive: the speaker and the person being spoken to: you and I, you and me, we two, us two, we

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In tpi, the first person inclusive: the speaker and the person(s) being spoken to: you and I, you and me, we two, us two, we

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Filipino, refined manners; modest behavior (especially of a young woman)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

0510152019001950200018 · 2007

Show as table
Yumi in INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024), Ecuador, 1900–2024
Yearrecords
19001
19081
19092
19142
19192
19211
19222
19231
19242
19261
19272
19282
19291
19302
19311
19321
19332
19352
19365
19392
19402
19412
19422
19431
19444
19453
19462
19473
19486
19493
19504
19511
19524
19534
19544
19556
19561
19576
19585
19593
19602
19616
19624
19631
19645
19654
19668
19678
19686
19695
19707
19719
19725
19735
19747
19757
19767
19775
197812
197911
19803
19819
19824
198311
19846
198510
198610
198712
19887
19897
19907
199110
19926
199313
19944
199512
19969
19977
19985
19995
20008
200114
20029
200311
20049
20058
200611
200718
200810
200918
201010
201116
20129
201311
20148
20158
201611
201713
20189
20196
202012
20215
20225
20235
20243

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 105 years between 1900–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Yumi Matsutoya, b. 1954Yumi Yoshiyuki, b. 1965Yumi Tōma, b. 1966Yumi Kakazu, b. 1973Jung Yu-mi, b. 1983Hwang Yu-mi, b. 1983Jeong Yu-mi, b. 1984Yumi Ishikawa, b. 1987Yumi Sugimoto, b. 1989Lee You-mi, b. 1994
  • Yumi Matsutoyab. 1954JPJapanese singer-songwriter
  • Yumi Yoshiyukib. 1965JPJapanese film director, actress, and screenwriter best known for her work in the pink film genre
  • Yumi Tōmab. 1966JPJapanese voice actress and narrator
  • Yumi Kakazub. 1973JPJapanese voice actress
  • Jung Yu-mib. 1983KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress (born 1983)
  • Hwang Yu-mib. 1983KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean badminton player
  • Jeong Yu-mib. 1984KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress (born 1984)
  • Yumi Ishikawab. 1987JPJapanese actress
  • Yumi Sugimotob. 1989JPJapanese actress, model and former singer
  • Lee You-mib. 1994KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress (born 1994)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 49 sources across 29 countries.

Official registers attesting Yumi
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.4K#6,687
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20221.6K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.5K#6,087
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—622#6,381
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—611#12,628
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2024470#1,279
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)2020406—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—69#10,954
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—66#10,060
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—66#7,093
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—65#22,350
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—57#11,142

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 416 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Yumi?
We estimate roughly 4.6 thousand people bear Yumi (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Yumi have the most bearers?
Yumi is most frequently recorded in Japan, where it is most often spelled yumi.
How common is Yumi compared with other names?
In Japan, Yumi is the 38th most common given name of 355,102 given names recorded there.
Is Yumi a male or female name?
Yumi is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Yumi mean?
Recorded meaning: Rōmaji transcription of ゆみ
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yumi

The same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.

About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Yumi” — the 38th most common given name in Japan. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

See how Yumi parses inside a full name →