Uma — #2721 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Uma

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,845 babies named Uma between 1961 and 2024, spanning 64 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Uma currently holds the #2721 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2006, when 81 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Uma performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 681 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Uma shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 383 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and New Jersey. In total, SSA state-level files list Uma in 12 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Uma in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,845 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.