Meaning not yet researched.
Rumi: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 175 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,283 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 68% of babies named Rumi in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,283 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
Hover, tap or use the arrow keys for any year. Years with fewer than five babies of a sex are not published by SSA and show as zero.
Rumi: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 175 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,283 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 175 (2025).
In 2025, 175 US girls were named Rumi, making it the 1,283rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 445 places from #1,728 in 2024. That is 57 more than the 118 girls named Rumi in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,283, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 175. For comparison, it was #4,961 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 81 US boys were named Rumi, making it the 1,931st most common boys’ name of the year, up 223 places from #2,154 in 2024. That is 12 more than the 69 boys named Rumi in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,931, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 81. For comparison, it was #4,860 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rumi in 23 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2002 with 6 babies. In all, 1,624 US babies have been given the name, 59% of them girls and 41% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,067 babies named Rumi.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 838 US girls were named Rumi; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 175. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,184 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Rumi ranked highest in California in 2025, at #713 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Romy (3,533 babies since 1880) and Romi (1,948 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Rumi in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 41 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 44 | #713 | #2,135 |
| Washington | 8 | #801 | — |
| New York | 18 | #893 | — |
| Maryland | 5 | #970 | — |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,141 | — |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,255 | — |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,346 | — |
| Texas | 18 | #1,396 | — |
| Florida | 8 | #1,662 | — |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,735 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 175 | #1,283 | 81 | #1,931 |
| 2024 | 118 | #1,728 | 69 | #2,154 |
| 2023 | 103 | #1,932 | 63 | #2,270 |
| 2022 | 107 | #1,894 | 57 | #2,462 |
| 2021 | 90 | #2,116 | 64 | #2,216 |
| 2020 | 80 | #2,254 | 60 | #2,285 |
| 2019 | 67 | #2,625 | 52 | #2,548 |
| 2018 | 43 | #3,604 | 51 | #2,541 |
| 2017 | 27 | #5,030 | 32 | #3,504 |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,965 | 25 | #4,177 |
| 2015 | 28 | #4,961 | 20 | #4,860 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,245 | 10 | #8,013 |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,428 | 10 | #7,987 |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,302 | 12 | #6,953 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,968 | 11 | #7,407 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,568 | 10 | #8,017 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,642 | 8 | #9,698 |
| 2008 | — | — | 6 | #12,274 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,677 | 9 | #8,783 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,457 | 6 | #11,772 |
| 2005 | — | — | 8 | #8,940 |
| 2004 | — | — | 7 | #9,741 |
| 2002 | 6 | #15,024 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).