Yumi
About 1,022 American babies have been named Yumi since 1960, most of them around 2025. In 2025 it ranked 2,998th. About 1,000 Yumis are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 14.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Yumi
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,022
- Estimated living today
- 1,000
- Median age today
- 14
- Peak year
- 2025
- Best rank
- 2,998th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,998th
- First recorded
- 1960
How old the living Yumis are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,022 babies given the name since 1960, about 1,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 570 of them are children and 4 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2011 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.
Where the name comes from
Origin Japanese
Borrowed from Japanese ゆみ.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Yumis
- Yumi Obe (born 1975)Japanese association football player
- Yumi Tomei (born 1972)Japanese association football player
- Yumi Uetsuji (born 1987)Japanese association football player
- Yumi Adachi (born 1981)Japanese actress, model and singer
- Yumi Matsutoya (born 1954)Japanese singer-songwriter
- Yumi Ishikawa (born 1987)Japanese actress
- Yūmi Kajihara (born 1997)Japanese cyclist
- Yumi Suzuki (born 1991)Japanese female curler
People named Yumi with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Yumi is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Yumi is most concentrated in California (7.3×), New York (2.2×), Texas (1.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2025
The most popular girls’ names the year Yumi peaked:
Yumi elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Yumi | 550 | 948th |
| Switzerland girls | Yumi | 71 | 750th |
| England and Wales girls | Yumi | 69 | 3,015th |
| Belgium girls | Yumi | 28 | 1,322nd |
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.
Yumi: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Yumi | 56 | 0.005% | 544th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Yumi | 13 | 0.003% | 492nd |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Yumi | 2 | 0.003% | 196th |
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.
By canton, Yumi is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.01% of children were given it – 25 of them.
Yumi: rank by region
In 2012, Yumi was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Yumi | 542 | 5 |
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.
Yumi by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 6 | 438th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Yumi among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Yumi | 5 | 7 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Yumi 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.