Yumiko is a feminine Japanese given name.
Written forms
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
- , Japanese professional wrestler
- , Japanese television writer
- , Hong Kong Cantopop singer and actress
- , Japanese sociologist
- , Japanese softball player
- , Japanese actress
- , Japanese TBS TV announcer
- , Japanese marathon runner
- , Japanese former politician
- , Japanese actress, voice actress, and singer
- , Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial artist
- , Japanese manga artist
- , Japanese synchronized swimmer
- , Japanese former idol of the idol group Nogizaka46
- , Japanese luger
- , Japanese shōjo manga artist
- , Japanese visual artist
- , Japanese voice actress
- , Japanese actress and singer
- , Japanese writer
- , Japanese classical soprano, a musicologist and an academic teacher
- Yumiko Nakagawa, a Japanese girl whose murder may be the center of an Okinawan controversy.
- , Japanese actress
- , Japanese bassist of the rock band Buffalo Daughter
- , Japanese professional 6 dan Go player
- , Japanese former swimmer
- , Japanese manga artist
- , Japanese former idol of the idol group Sakurazaka46
- , Japanese actress, model and former gravure idol
- , Japanese former voice actress
- , Japanese sailor
- , Japanese manga artist
- , Japanese sprint canoer
- , Japanese former cyclist
- , Japanese actress and singer
- , Japanese costume designer, ballet dancer, and founder of YUMIKO dancewear.
- , Japanese tarento, model, presenter, actress and former idol singer
- , Japanese volleyball player
- , Japanese journalist, television reporter, television personality, and former NHK Announcer.
- , Japanese pianist
- , Japanese handball player
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
- Yumiko, a character in the fighting game, Brawlhalla.
- Mirkou Yumiko (弥勒 夕海子), a character from Kusunoki Mebuki is a Hero.