Umay is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Oma, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Umay: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 9 in 2025. Its best rank was #8,403 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #8,403 in 2024; #10,847 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Umay in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#10,847 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #8,403.
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Umay: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 9 girls in 2025. Peak: #8,403 in 2024 · most girls in one year: 13 (2024).
In 2025, 9 US girls were named Umay, making it the 10,847th most common girls’ name of the year, down 2,444 places from #8,403 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 13 girls named Umay in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #8,403, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 13. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Umay in 2 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2024 with 13 babies. In all, 22 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 22 babies named Umay.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 22 US girls were named Umay; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 13. In 2025 that was about 1 in 178,585 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Oma (9,779 babies since 1880) and Uma (1,901 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Atayal. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
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 Umay in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
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).