Yayoi (given name)

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

Possible writings
Yayoi can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: The given name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.
 * 弥生, "March"
 * as a given name
 * 彌生, "extensive, life"

People with the name

 * Yayoi Jinguji (弥生), Japanese voice actress
 * Yayoi Kitazume (北爪 やよひ), Japanese composer
 * Yayoi Kobayashi (小林 弥生), Japanese women's footballer
 * Yayoi Kusama (彌生 or 弥生), Japanese artist
 * Yayoi Matsumoto (弥生), Japanese swimmer
 * Yayoi Nagaoka (長岡 弥生), Japanese speed skater
 * Yayoi Wachi (弥生), Japanese composer and sound designer
 * Yayoi Watanabe (やよい), Japanese actress
 * Yayoi Yoshioka (彌生), 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 Yamamoto, a character in the novel Out by Natsuo Kirino
 * Yayoi Kuribayashi, a character from the manga and anime series Mouse