Umi — #8773 US unisex name
169 babies named Umi in U.S. Social Security records since 2006, with the highest year being 2021. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 50% of names given to girls today.
49% of everyone ever named Umi was born in this single decade.
24 babies were named Umi in 2021 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Umi
The Social Security Administration has registered 169 babies named Umi between 2006 and 2024, spanning 19 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Umi currently holds the #8773 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 24 babies received it in a single year. Umi is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 22 additional births since 2020.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Umi performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 83 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Umi shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 18 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Umi in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Umi 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 169 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.
Umi at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Umi popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–2006
- Peak year (2021)
- 24
- Annual births at peak — across 19 years of records
Currently ranks #8773 among girls.
169 total births across 19 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2021 with 24 births in a single year.
Umi popularity over time — boys
22 total births recorded since 2020 (Umi as boys' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The boys' variant of Umi accounts for 12% of total recorded use across both genders.
Umi by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2020s
- 83 births that decade — 49% of Umi's all-time total
Umi decade highlights
- Peak decade 83 births
- Runner-up 70 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2020s was Umi's strongest decade
83 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 49% of all-time use.
Umi by state
Where Umi concentrates geographically — total births since 2006
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 18 | 10.7% |
18 of 169 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 10.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 10.7% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 2006–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.