Yumiko
# Yumiko

Yumiko is a feminine Japanese given name.

## Possible writings

Yumiko can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:

* 弓子, "bow, child".
* 由美子, "reason/cause, beauty, child".
* 結実子, "fruition, child".
* 夕実子, "evening, fruit, child".
* 優美子, "tenderness, beauty, child".
* 悠美子, "permanence, beauty, child".
* 祐美子, "help, beauty, child".
* 由実子, "reason/cause, fruit, child".
* 有美子, "exist/possess, beauty, child".
* 夕美子, "evening, beauty, child".
* 友美子, "friend, beauty, child".
* 裕美子, "rich, beauty, child".
* 勇美子, "brave, beauty, child".

The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.

## People

* Yumiko Abe (由美子), a Japanese professional wrestler.
* Yumiko Cheng (鄭烈瓊), a Hong Kong Cantopop singer.
* Yumiko Fujita (弓子), a Japanese actress.
* Yumiko Fukushima, announcer.
* Yumiko Hara (裕美子), a Japanese marathon runner.
* Yumiko Hosono (佑美子), a Japanese voice actress, actress, and singer.
* Yumiko Hotta (祐美子), a Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial artist.
* Yumiko Igarashi (ゆみこ), a Japanese manga artist.
* Yumiko Kobayashi (由美子, born 1979), a Japanese voice actress.
* Yumiko Kokonoe (佑三子), a Japanese actress.
* Yumiko Ōshima (弓子), a Japanese manga artist.
* Yumiko Nakagawa, a Japanese girl at the center of an Okinawan controversy.
* Yumiko Shaku (由美子), a Japanese actress and model.
* Yumiko Shibata (由美子), a Japanese voice actress.
* Yumiko Suzuki (disambiguation), multiple people.
* Yumiko Takeshima (竹島 由美子), a Japanese costume designer, ballet dancer, and founder of YUMIKO dancewear.

## Fictional characters

* Yumiko Kusaka (友美子), a character in the novel, film and manga Battle Royale.
* Yumiko Shirasagi (白鷺弓子), a character in the novel series Digital Devil Story and the video game adaptation Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei.
* Yumiko Takagi (高木由美子), a character in the anime and manga series Hellsing.
* Yumiko Sakaki (榊由美子), a character in the Grisaia series of visual novels.
* Yumiko (弓子), a female Japanese-American character in the comic book series The Walking Dead as well as the TV series adaptation.
* Yumiko "Hibana" Imagawa (今川 由美子), a character in the video game series Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, nicknamed Hibana (Rainbow_Six_Siege).
* Yumiko, a character in the fighting game, Brawlhalla.
* Mirkou Yumiko, a character from Kusunoki Mebuki is a Hero.
