Rumi
Rumi is given to both girls and boys: 175 girls and 81 boys were given it in 2025 (#1,283 among girls’ names and #1,931 among boys’, #1,886 among all names counting both); 1,624 Americans have been recorded with it since 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,610 Americans named Rumi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 2 and 8.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rumi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rumi?
#1,283 among girls’ names, 2025
Rumi rose from #4,959 in 2015 to #1,283 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.02 to 0.11 per 1,000.
256 babies in 2025, the peak
Rumi peaked in 2025, when 256 babies were given it (175 girls, #1,283 among girls’ names). In 2024 it went to 118 girls.
Births by sex.
| 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 | #2,269 |
| 2022 | 107 | #1,894 | 57 | #2,461 |
| 2021 | 90 | #2,116 | 64 | #2,215 |
| 2020 | 80 | #2,254 | 60 | #2,284 |
| 2019 | 67 | #2,625 | 52 | #2,547 |
| 2018 | 43 | #3,603 | 51 | #2,540 |
| 2017 | 27 | #5,028 | 32 | #3,500 |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,964 | 25 | #4,176 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 28 | #4,959 | 20 | #4,858 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,243 | 10 | #8,007 |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,425 | 10 | #7,982 |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,297 | 12 | #6,947 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,961 | 11 | #7,400 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,561 | 10 | #8,011 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,636 | 8 | #9,693 |
| 2008 | under 5 | 6 | #12,267 | |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,671 | 9 | #8,777 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,451 | 6 | #11,765 |
| 2005 | under 5 | 8 | #8,933 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 7 | #9,735 | |
| 2002 | 6 | #15,018 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Rumi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,624 Americans recorded as Rumi, 59% are girls and 41% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Rumi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rumi, and how old are they?
1,610 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,624 Americans ever recorded as Rumi. The median Rumi alive today is 5 years old; half are between 2 and 8.
The 2020 Census counted 1,041 people named Rumi (729 women and girls, 312 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 588 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 126 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,490 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Rumi born?
The states with the most babies named Rumi are California, New York and Texas, with 73% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 59 | #713 | 2.2× |
| New York | 35 | #893 | 1.3× |
| Texas | 27 | #1,396 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 8 | #1,662 | 0.3× |
| Washington | 8 | #801 | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,255 | 0.2× |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,141 | 0.1× |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,346 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,735 | 0.4× |
| Maryland | 5 | #970 | 0.2× |
Where Rumi is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rumi is most over-represented in California: since 2002 it was given 2.2 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 Rumi with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Rumi
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 Rumi and names like it
- Compare Rumi and SuttonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rumi since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Rumi.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Rumi alive today were born 2013-2025.
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