Kumiko
Appearance
Gender | Female |
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Origin | |
Word/name | Japanese |
Meaning | many different meanings depending on the kanji used. |
Other names | |
Related names | Kumi |
Kumiko (くみこ, クミコ) is a feminine Japanese given name.
Written forms
[edit]Kumiko can be written using different kanji and can mean:
- 久美子, "forever, beauty, child"
- 空見子, "sky, see, child"
- 公美子, "public, beauty, child"
- 來未子, "come, not, child"
- 功美子, "success, beauty child"
The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.
People
[edit]- Kumiko Asō (久美子), a Japanese actress
- Kumiko Akiyoshi (久美子), a Japanese actress
- Kumiko Ogura (久美子), a Japanese female badminton player
- Kumiko Nakano (公美子), a Japanese actress
- Kumiko Goto (久美子), a Japanese model, actress and wife of Jean Alesi
- Kumiko Takeda (久美子), a Japanese actress and model
- Kumiko Hayashi (久美子), a Japanese politician
- Kumiko Aihara (久美子), a Japanese politician
- Kumiko Nishihara (久美子, born 1965), a Japanese voice actress
- Kumiko Watanabe (久美子, born 1965), a Japanese actress and voice actress
- Kumiko Takahashi (animator) (高橋 久美子), Japanese animator and character designer
- Kumiko Takahashi (singer) (高橋 久美子, born 1954), Japanese singer
- Kumiko Takahashi (writer) (高橋 久美子, born 1982), Japanese writer
- Kumiko Okamoto (久美子), a Japanese retired female tennis player
- Kumiko Sato (久美子), a Japanese figure skating coach
- Kumiko Ikeda (久美子), a Japanese long jumper
- Kumiko Koiwai (久美子), a former Japanese figure skater
- Kumiko Yokoyama (横山 久美子, born 1972), Japanese cross-country skier
Fictional characters
[edit]- Kumiko (character), a character portrayed by Tamlyn Tomita in The Karate Kid Part II (1986) and Cobra Kai (2021)
- Kumiko Yamaguchi (久美子), the main character in the manga, anime, and television drama series Gokusen
- Kumiko Okada (久美子), a character in Haruki Murakami's novel The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
- Kumiko Ōmae (久美子), the protagonist of the novel series Sound! Euphonium
- Kumiko Tanaka?, the little daughter of Mr. Tanaka in Memoirs of a Geisha
- Kumiko, title character in the 2014 American drama film Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
- Kumiko "The Bullet", pilot of one of the playable machines in F-Zero: Maximum Velocity
- Kumiko Albertson, a recurring character in The Simpsons
See also
[edit]- 4454 Kumiko, main-belt Asteroid
- Kumikō, a game of kōdō
- kumiko, the pieces of lattice work in shoji