title: Yumiko
text: # 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.
  