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
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Yayoi (やよい, ヤヨイ) is a feminine Japanese given name.

## Written forms

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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

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* 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

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* 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

## References

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1. ^ Yayoi - Meaning and origin of the name Yayoi

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