Entry № 11851 · Other origin

Yumiko Yumiko — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ yoo-MEE-koh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Bow child / archery child (Japanese + Yumiko Igarashi manga artist)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Japanese)

A name that means "bow child / archery child (japanese + yumiko igarashi manga artist)".

Yumiko is one of the Japanese feminine names — central to traditional Japanese heritage. The Japanese yumi (弓 bow) is central to kyūdō.

Bow child / archery child (Japanese).

The name in its native script.

弓子
Transliteration
Yumiko
Pronunciation
/ juːˈmiː.koʊ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Yumiko stands.

Yumiko 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.

Yumikos before her.

Real people
Yumiko Igarashi
Japanese manga artist + illustrator of Candy Candy 1975-1979 + ~12M copies.
born 1950
In fiction
Yumiko
Japanese bow child.

Names connected to Yumiko.

The number behind Yumiko.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Yumiko reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.