Pronunciation | Yayoi |
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Gender | Female |
Origin | |
Word/name | Japanese |
Meaning | March extensive, life |
Region of origin | Japanese |
Other names | |
Related names | Satsuki |
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Yayoi (やよい, ヤヨイ) is a feminine Japanese given name.
Written forms
Yayoi can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:
- 弥生, "March"
- as a given name
- 彌生, "extensive, life"
The given name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.
People with the name
- Yayoi Jinguji (弥生, 1965–2017), Japanese voice actress
- Yayoi Kitazume (北爪 やよひ, born 1945), Japanese composer
- Yayoi Kobayashi (小林 弥生, born 1981), Japanese women's footballer
- Yayoi Kusama (彌生 or 弥生, born 1929), Japanese artist
- Yayoi Matsumoto (弥生, born 1990), Japanese swimmer
- Yayoi Nagaoka (長岡 弥生, born 1974), Japanese speed skater
- Yayoi Watanabe (やよい, born 1952), Japanese actress
- Yayoi Yoshioka (彌生, 1871–1959), Japanese physician and women's rights activist
Fictional characters
- Yayoi Kise, aka Cure Peace from the shoujo anime Smile PreCure!
- Yayoi, the main heroine of the manga series Mugen Spiral
- Yayoi Tsubaki, a character in the fighting game series BlazBlue
- Yayoi Fujisawa (やよい), a character in the anime series Stellvia of the Universe
- Yayoi Inuzuka (弥生), a character in the light novel, manga, and anime series Kure-nai
- Yayoi Matsunaga (弥生), a character in the anime series Nightwalker: The Midnight Detective
- Yayoi (弥生) Yukino (雪野), the main character in the anime series Queen Millennia
- Yayoi Kamishiro, a main character and possible love interest in the video game Lux-Pain
- Yayoi (弥生), the landlady and "mother" of Hiroe Ogawa in the hentai anime and manga F3: Frantic, Frustrated & Female
- Yayoi Aoba, a character of the manga and anime series Captain Tsubasa
- Yayoi Shinozuka, a character of the visual novel series White Album
- Yayoi Shioiri, a character in the manga Loveless
- Yayoi Takatsuki, a character in the video games series THE iDOLM@STER
- Yayoi Kunizuka, a character in the light novel, manga and anime series Psycho-Pass
- Yayoi Ulshade/KyoryuViolet II, a character in the tokusatsu series "Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger"
- Yayoi Kuribayashi, a character from the manga and anime series Mouse