Rumi
About 1,624 American babies have been named Rumi since 2002, most of them around 2025. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 1,279th. About 1,600 Rumis are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 4.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Rumi boys named Rumi
Girls and boys called Rumi
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 953 girls and 671 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 175 to 81.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 13 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,624
- Estimated living today
- 1,600
- Median age today
- 4
- Peak year
- 2025
- Best rank
- 1,279th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,279th
- First recorded
- 2002
- Girls / boys
- 953 / 671
How old the living Rumis are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,624 babies given the name since 2002, about 1,600 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 1,600 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2021 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Rumis
- Rumi (1207–1273)Iranian poet
- Rumi Utsugi (born 1988)Japanese association football player
- Rumi Ōkubo (born 1989)Japanese voice actress
People named Rumi with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Rumi is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Rumi is most concentrated in California (5.4×), New York (2.0×), Texas (1.9×), Virginia (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2025
The most popular girls’ names the year Rumi peaked:
Rumi elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Rumi | 232 | 856th |
| England and Wales girls | Rumi | 184 | 1,028th |
| Switzerland boys | Rumi | 20 | 1,287th |
| Switzerland girls | Rumi | 19 | 1,143rd |
| France boys | Rumi | 15 | 5,117th |
| Belgium boys | Rumi | 13 | 1,072nd |
| Belgium girls | Rumi | 12 | 1,023rd |
| Scotland girls | Rumi | 6 | 760th |
| France girls | Rumi | 5 | 4,878th |
| Poland boys | Rumi | 2 birth registrations | 663rd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Rumi: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Rumi | 18 | 0.001% | 967th |
| German girls | Switzerland | Rumi | 17 | 0.001% | 868th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Rumi | 1 | 0.000% | 1,042nd |
| French boys | Switzerland | Rumi | 1 | 0.000% | 902nd |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Rumi | 1 | 0.002% | 168th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Rumi | 1 | 0.002% | 182nd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Rumi: rank by region
In 2025, Rumi was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Rumi | 656 | 7 |
| Flanders | Rumi | 714 | 7 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Rumi by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 4 | 434th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Related names
Rumi against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.