title: Kumi (name)
text: # Kumi (name)
  
  Kumi (くみ, クミ) is a given name.
  
  ## Possible writings in Japanese
  
  ### 組, "group, party, pair, band, class"
  
  **as a given name**
  
  * 久美, "long time, beauty" (also read Hisami)
  * 久実, "long time, fruit"
  * 来未, "come, not yet"
  * 九美, "nine, beauty"
  * 九海, "nine seas"
  
  The given name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.
  
  ## People
  
  ### with the given name Kumi
  
  * Kumi (born 1976), vocalist of the Japanese band Love Psychedelico
  * Kumi Araki (荒木 久美, born 1965), Japanese long-distance runner
  * Kumi Koda (倖田 來未, born 1982), Japanese pop and neo soul singer
  * Kumi Miyasato (宮里 久美, born 1969), Japanese pop singer and voice actress
  * Kumi Mizuno (水野 久美, born 1937), Japanese actress
  * Kumi Mori (born 1985), Japanese handball goalkeeper
  * Kumi Naidoo (born 1965), South African human rights activist and head of Greenpeace
  * Kumi Nakada (中田 久美, born 1965), former professional volleyball player
  * Kumi Otoshi (大利 久美, born 1985), Japanese race walker
  * Kumi Sakuma (佐久間 紅美, born 1976), Japanese voice actress
  * Kumi Sasaki (idol) (佐々木 久美, born 1996), Japanese idol
  * Kumi Sasaki (musician) (佐々木 久美), Japanese recording artist
  * Kumi Taguchi (actress) (田口 久美), Japanese-American actress
  * Kumi Taguchi (journalist) (田口 久美, born 1975), Australian television broadcaster and presenter
  * Kumi Tanioka (谷岡 久美, born 1974), Japanese video game music composer
  * Kumi Yokoyama (横山 久美, born 1993), Japanese football striker
  * Kumi Yamada (山田 久美, born 1967), women's professional shogi player
  
  ## Fictional characters
  
  ### with the given name Kumi
  
  * Kumi, a ladybug in the cartoon series Beat Bugs
  * Kumi, a fox Gacha pet in the Korean online video game Grand Chase
  * Kumi, a character in the popular children's doll franchise Bratz
  * Kumi Mashiba, a character in the manga and anime series Fighting Spirit
  * Kumi Ōkubo, a character in the Japanese fighting game series Asuka 120% Burning Festival
  * Kumi Hayami, a character in the magical girl anime series Magical Fairy Persia
  * Kumi Kawamura, a character in the manga series Alien Nine
  * Kumi Hirose, a character in the role-playing game Revelations: Persona
  * Kumi Sugimoto, a character in the manga and anime series Captain Tsubasa
  * Kumi Mashiba, a character in the anime series (Makunouchi Ippo's love interest) Hajime no Ippo
  * Kazeumi Kumi (Bukubukuchagama), a character in the light novel, anime And manga series (Overlord)
  * Kumi Kibashi, a character in Gal*Gun!
  