Yumi
Yumi was given to 55 girls in 2025, #3,027 among girls’ names; 1,022 Americans have been recorded with it since 1960 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,000 Americans named Yumi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 6 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yumi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Yumi mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Yumi is “a female given name from Japanese.”
Borrowed from Japanese ゆみ (Yumi).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Yumi?
#3,027 among girls’ names, 2025
Yumi rose from #4,848 in 2015 to #3,027 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 16.2 to 34.2 per million.
55 babies in 2025, the peak
Yumi peaked in 2025, when 55 girls were given it, #3,027 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 53 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 55 | #3,027 | 34.2 |
| 2024 | 53 | #3,080 | 32.7 |
| 2023 | 36 | #4,107 | 22.4 |
| 2022 | 47 | #3,414 | 28.7 |
| 2021 | 42 | #3,672 | 25.6 |
| 2020 | 28 | #4,751 | 17.3 |
| 2019 | 31 | #4,540 | 18.5 |
| 2018 | 35 | #4,139 | 20.6 |
| 2017 | 22 | #5,811 | 12.7 |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,242 | 19.8 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 29 | #4,848 | 16.2 |
| 2014 | 26 | #5,306 | 14.6 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,246 | 12.0 |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,249 | 15.3 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,537 | 14.2 |
| 2010 | 22 | #6,173 | 12.4 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,306 | 12.0 |
| 2008 | 19 | #7,060 | 10.0 |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,313 | 11.4 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,890 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,788 | 11.9 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,872 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,488 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,268 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,311 | 10.0 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,773 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,323 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 8 | #11,114 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,832 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,564 | 5.1 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,752 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,789 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,665 | 9.4 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,722 | 5.4 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,973 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,455 | 7.4 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,831 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,660 | 6.7 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,344 | 5.8 |
| 1986 | 12 | #6,150 | 7.0 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,949 | 5.8 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,894 | 7.1 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,455 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 8 | #8,215 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,568 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,787 | 6.0 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,747 | 7.5 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,741 | 3.9 |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,432 | 4.6 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,771 | 6.8 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,430 | 4.8 |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,315 | 3.6 |
| 1970 | 5 | #9,345 | 2.9 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,719 | 6.5 |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,240 | 4.3 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,620 | 6.1 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,559 | 3.5 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,534 | 3.4 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,763 | 3.2 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,653 | 2.6 |
| 1960 | 5 | #7,318 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Yumi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yumi has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 61 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yumi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yumi, and how old are they?
1,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,022 Americans ever recorded as Yumi. The median Yumi alive today is 15 years old; half are between 6 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 2,374 people named Yumi (2,358 women and girls, 16 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 754 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 14 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 96 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 173 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 262 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 457 |
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 Yumi born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 16 | #1,485 | 1.6× |
| New York | 6 | #2,061 | 0.7× |
Where Yumi is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Yumi is most over-represented in California: since 1960 it was given 1.6 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 Yumi 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 1,977 babies since 1880, Yumi is the most given (52% of them). In 2025 it was given to 55 of their 103 babies (53%), 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 Yumi
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 Yumi and names like it
- Compare Yumi and YeimiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sYumi peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yumi since 1910.
- Japanese namesWiktionary’s origin for Yumi: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Yumi.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Yumi alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with YMost given first.