Entry № 11850 · Japanese origin

Yumi Yumi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ YOO-mee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Japanese
Meaning
"Bow, beautiful reason"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Japanese)

A name that means "bow, beautiful reason".

Yumi is a Japanese name with several possible kanji. 弓 means "bow" (the weapon). 由美 combines 由 (reason, cause) and 美 (beauty) — "beautiful reason." 優美 means "gentle beauty." Each set of parents chooses the kanji they want.

Yumi has been a popular Japanese girls' name throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. The singer Yumi Matsutōya (Yuming) is one of Japan's most beloved artists.

Bow. Beautiful reason. The kanji decides.

The name in its native script.

弓 · 由美 · 優美
Transliteration
Yumi
Pronunciation
/ ˈjuː.mi /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Yumi stands.

Yumi 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.

Yumis before her.

Real people
Yumi Matsutōya
Japanese singer-songwriter.
born 1954
Yumi Kawai
Japanese actress.
born 2000
In fiction

Names connected to Yumi.

The number behind Yumi.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Yumi reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.