Kasumi (given name)

Kasumi (かすみ, カスミ) is a feminine Japanese given name.

Kasumi

Gender	Female
Origin
Word/name	Japanese
Meaning	Different meanings depending on the kanji used

Possible writings

Kasumi can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:

• 霞, "mist"
• 香澄, "incense, lucidity"
• 佳純, "excellent, purity"
• 架純, "mount, purity"
• 加純, "addition, purity"
• 花純, "flower, purity"

The given name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.

People

• Kasumi Arimura (有村 架純, born 1993), Japanese actress
• Kasumi Ishikawa (石川 佳純, born 1993), Japanese table tennis player
• Kasumi Nakane (仲根 かすみ, born 1982), Japanese model, gravure idol and actress
• Kasumi Nishihara (西原 加純, born 1989), Japanese long-distance runner
• Kasumi Saeki (佐伯 霞, born 1996), Japanese boxer
• Kasumi Suzuki (鈴木 かすみ, born 1990), Japanese actress
• Kasumi Takahashi (born 1980), Japanese-Australian rhythmic gymnast
• Kasumi Yamaya (山谷 花純, born 1996), Japanese actress and model

Fictional characters

• Kasumi (Dead or Alive) (かすみ), a character in the video game series Dead or Alive
• Kasumi (カスミ), better known in English as Misty, a character in the media franchise Pokémon
• Kasumi, an alternative name of Cassandra Cain, a character in DC Comics
• Kasumi Goto, a character in the video game Mass Effect 2
• Kasumi Gyoubu (霞 刑部), a character in the novel The Kouga Ninja Scrolls
• Kasumi Hanasaki (花咲 カスミ), a character in the anime series Tama and Friends
• Kasumi Kenshiro (霞 拳志郎), the protagonist of Fist of the Blue Sky and the uncle of Kenshiro, also known as Yan Wang
• Kasumi Momochi (百地 霞), a character in the tokusatsu series Shuriken Sentai Ninninger
• Kasumi Nakasu (中須 かすみ), a character in the media franchise Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club
• Kasumi Tendo (天道 かすみ), a character in the manga series Ranma ½
• Kasumi Todoh (藤堂 香澄), a character in the video game series Art of Fighting
• Kasumi Toyama (戸山 香澄), a character in the media franchise BanG Dream!
• Kasumi Yoshizawa (芳澤 かすみ), a character in the video game Persona 5 Royal
• Kasumi Nakano (中野 かすみ), a character in the video game Fallout 4 DLC "Far Harbor"
• Kasumi (カスミ), a character in Bofuri.
• Kasumi Miwa (三輪霞), a character in the manga and anime series Jujutsu Kaisen.
• Kasumi (カスミ), better known as Haze/Fan la Norne in the video game Xenoblade Chronicles 2