Yumi
A Japanese name written 弓, "archery bow". In Poland it stays rare: only about two dozen women carry it, and no girls were given it last year.
Yumi Pronunciation
Yumi is pronounced ih-OO-mee (/ɨˈumi/).
What Yumi means
Where Yumi comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yumi comes to Poland from Japanese, where a single sound can be written many ways. One spelling is 弓, the word for an archery bow. That is the meaning most often given: the bow of the kyūdō archer, curved and taut. Japanese names lean on their characters, and one sound holds several.
Write Yumi as 由美 or 弓美, and the second character, 美, means beauty. This is where the Polish gloss piękno enters. The sense of beauty was attached through the kanji a family chose, not through the bare sound. A child named for the bow and a child named for beauty can share one line on a class register.
Yumi has no diminutives, no Polish variants. It arrives whole. Two syllables, easy for a Polish teacher to read aloud from the dziennik.
On a Polish form at the urząd, Yumi sits without a name-day, since the calendar holds no Yumi. The origin stays foreign, and the meaning doubles: a bow, and piękno.
How many people are named Yumi
1 in 867071 women in Poland is named Yumi. 26 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #8431 among female names.
Yumi as a middle name
Yumi is a first name for 26 women in Poland and a middle name for another 7, a 79/21 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 3146th, between Yoanna (7) and Zilan (7).
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#3144 Yevheniia7
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#3145 Yoanna7
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#3146 Yumi7
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#3147 Zilan7
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#3148 Zora7