Uma
Uma was given to 55 girls in 2025, #3,025 among girls’ names; 1,901 Americans have been recorded with it since 1961 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,880 Americans named Uma and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 7 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Uma by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Uma mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Uma is “a female given name from Sanskrit mainly used in India.”
Sense 1 is from Sanskrit उमा (umā).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Uma?
#3,025 among girls’ names, 2025
Uma fell from #2,709 in 2015 to #3,025 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 37.0 to 34.2 per million.
81 babies in 2006, the peak
Uma peaked in 2006, when 81 girls were given it, #2,349 among girls’ names. The 55 births of 2025 are 68% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 55 | #3,025 | 34.2 |
| 2024 | 63 | #2,746 | 38.9 |
| 2023 | 72 | #2,493 | 44.9 |
| 2022 | 73 | #2,487 | 44.5 |
| 2021 | 71 | #2,508 | 43.3 |
| 2020 | 70 | #2,499 | 43.3 |
| 2019 | 71 | #2,505 | 42.3 |
| 2018 | 69 | #2,556 | 40.6 |
| 2017 | 73 | #2,484 | 42.3 |
| 2016 | 69 | #2,591 | 38.9 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 66 | #2,709 | 37.0 |
| 2014 | 78 | #2,369 | 43.7 |
| 2013 | 57 | #2,969 | 32.5 |
| 2012 | 77 | #2,424 | 43.7 |
| 2011 | 61 | #2,865 | 34.7 |
| 2010 | 60 | #2,900 | 33.8 |
| 2009 | 60 | #2,934 | 32.7 |
| 2008 | 50 | #3,372 | 26.4 |
| 2007 | 70 | #2,643 | 36.4 |
| 2006 | 81 | #2,349 | 42.6 |
| 2005 | 65 | #2,631 | 35.2 |
| 2004 | 57 | #2,842 | 31.0 |
| 2003 | 48 | #3,125 | 26.3 |
| 2002 | 35 | #3,800 | 19.5 |
| 2001 | 38 | #3,541 | 21.1 |
| 2000 | 55 | #2,701 | 30.3 |
| 1999 | 28 | #4,192 | 15.8 |
| 1998 | 33 | #3,639 | 18.7 |
| 1997 | 30 | #3,807 | 17.2 |
| 1996 | 25 | #4,297 | 14.3 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,428 | 10.2 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,761 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,689 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,451 | 4.9 |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,456 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 5 | #15,155 | 2.6 |
| 1988 | 8 | #9,207 | 4.5 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,495 | 4.1 |
| 1983 | 5 | #12,000 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 7 | #9,192 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 7 | #9,069 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 7 | #9,060 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,980 | 4.4 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,519 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,833 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,532 | 5.3 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,951 | 3.4 |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,249 | 4.7 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,471 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Uma a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Uma has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Uma: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Uma, and how old are they?
1,880 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,901 Americans ever recorded as Uma. The median Uma alive today is 14 years old; half are between 7 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 4,889 people named Uma (4,725 women and girls, 164 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,500 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.3 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 45 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 110 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 839 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 882 |
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 Uma born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 9 | #1,519 | 2.0× |
| California | 8 | #2,474 | 1.6× |
Where Uma is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Uma is most over-represented in New York: since 1961 it was given 2.0 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 Uma 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 2,212 babies since 1880, Uma is the most given (86% of them). In 2025 it was given to 55 of their 85 babies (65%), 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 Uma
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 Uma and names like it
- Compare Uma and UmiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sUma peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Uma since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Uma: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Uma.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Uma alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with UMost given first.