Yayoi (given name)

For other uses, see Yayoi (disambiguation).

Yayoi

Yayoi Yoshioka, a Japanese women's rights activist
Pronunciation	Yayoi
Gender	Female
Origin
Word/name	Japanese
Meaning	March extensive, life
Region of origin	Japanese
Other names
Related names	Satsuki

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, third month, "March" in modern calendar, "April" in traditional calendar

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 Kano (加納 弥生; 1963–2019), Japanese artistic gymnast
• 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