Umi
Umi is given to both girls and boys: 16 girls and 5 boys were given it in 2025 (#7,106 among girls’ names and #13,741 among boys’, #10,244 among all names counting both); 212 Americans have been recorded with it since 2006 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Umi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Umi?
#7,106 among girls’ names, 2025
Umi rose from #11,770 in 2015 to #7,106 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.0 to 10.0 per million.
33 babies in 2021, the peak
Umi peaked in 2021, when 33 babies were given it (24 girls, #5,386 among girls’ names). The 21 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 64% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #7,106 | 5 | #13,741 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,905 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | 16 | #7,219 | 7 | #10,721 |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,966 | under 5 | |
| 2021 | 24 | #5,386 | 9 | #8,772 |
| 2020 | 10 | #10,190 | 6 | #11,915 |
| 2019 | 12 | #9,070 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,368 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,643 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 5 | #18,682 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (18)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #11,770 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | 6 | #16,378 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | 6 | #16,395 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 9 | #12,077 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,846 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 6 | #17,157 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 5 | #20,294 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,890 | 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 Umi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 212 Americans recorded as Umi, 87% are girls and 13% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Umi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Umi, and how old are they?
An estimated 211 Americans named Umi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 3 and 10. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 277 people named Umi (217 women and girls, 60 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 90 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.1 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,212 babies since 1880, Umi is the second most given (9.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 21 of their 85 babies (25%), again the second 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 Umi
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 Umi and names like it
- Compare Umi and UmaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sUmi peaked in 2021.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Umi since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Umi.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Umi alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with UMost given first.