Mayumi has parallel origins. In Tagalog (Filipino), it means "gentle" or "modest." In Japanese (真弓), it means "true bow" — referring to the longbow used in archery.
Mayumi is widely used in both the Philippines and Japan.
Mayumi does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Mayumi reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.