Lumi
Lumi was given to 99 girls in 2025, #1,953 among girls’ names; 712 Americans have been recorded with it since 2008 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lumi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lumi mean?
Wiktionary, Finnish section
Lumi is “a female given name from Finnish” Its etymology gives the sense “snow” (lumi).
Modern usage from lumi (“snow”), but with a different declension.
/ˈlumi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Finnish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lumi?
#1,953 among girls’ names, 2025
Lumi rose from #9,276 in 2015 to #1,953 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 6.7 to 61.6 per million.
106 babies in 2025, the peak
Lumi peaked in 2025, when 106 babies were given it (99 girls, #1,953 among girls’ names). In 2024 it went to 87 girls.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 99 | #1,953 | 61.6 |
| 2024 | 87 | #2,190 | 53.7 |
| 2023 | 86 | #2,203 | 53.6 |
| 2022 | 90 | #2,135 | 54.9 |
| 2021 | 57 | #2,948 | 34.7 |
| 2020 | 57 | #2,874 | 35.3 |
| 2019 | 68 | #2,584 | 40.5 |
| 2018 | 36 | #4,046 | 21.2 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,699 | 10.4 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,686 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (18)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12 | #9,276 | 6.7 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,549 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,573 | 5.1 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,107 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,207 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,727 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,379 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,195 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lumi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 712 Americans recorded as Lumi, 95% are girls and 5% boys. In 2025 it went to 99 girls and 7 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Lumi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lumi, and how old are they?
An estimated 708 Americans named Lumi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 4 years old and half are between 2 and 7. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made.
Where are babies named Lumi born?
The states with the most babies named Lumi are California, New York and Washington, with 89% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Washington is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 25 | #1,075 | 1.2× |
| New York | 8 | #1,604 | 0.9× |
| Washington | 6 | #997 | 1.2× |
| Texas | 5 | #3,607 | 0.3× |
Where Lumi is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lumi is most over-represented in California: since 2008 it was given 1.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Lumi with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,060 babies since 1880, Lumi is the most given (67% of them). In 2025 it was given to 106 of their 120 babies (88%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Lumi
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Lumi and names like it
- Compare Lumi and LumaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sLumi peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lumi since 1910.
- Finnish namesWiktionary’s origin for Lumi: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Lumi.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Lumi alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.