In 2025, 16 US girls were named Umi, making it the 7,108th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,802 places from #8,910 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 12 girls named Umi in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #5,390, reached in 2021. That year also had the most girls given the name: 24. For comparison, it was #11,775 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 5 US boys were named Umi, making it the 13,745th most common boys’ name of the year. Its best rank for boys was #8,777, reached in 2021. That year also had the most boys given the name: 9. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Umi in 18 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2006 with 5 babies. In all, 212 US babies have been given the name, 87% of them girls and 13% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 126 babies named Umi.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 133 US girls were named Umi; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 24. In 2025 that was about 1 in 100,454 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Sakizaya. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.