Rumi

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A few things about Rumi you might not know, from US birth records and Wikipedia. Handy for convincing a partner, or a grandparent.

⭐ Famous Rumi

Rumi Utsugi

Japanese association football player

Choose Rumi and your child shares a first name with Rumi Utsugi, a Japanese association football player. A ready-made answer when someone asks “Rumi, like who?” Rumi Utsugi's Wikipedia article is available in 44 languages, a good sign of just how widely known they are.

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Photo: Pierre-Yves Beaudouin, CC BY-SA 3.0 (opens in a new tab), via Wikimedia Commons

• 👶How commonAbout 1 in every 9,183 baby girls born in the US in 2025 was named Rumi, 175 babies in all. In a typical school of 500 kids, your Rumi would very likely be the only one.
• 📜HistoryRumi first shows up in US birth records in 2002, the first year at least 5 babies got it. That makes it a fairly new name, younger than many of today's parents.
• 🏆Best yearRumi is at its all-time high right now: #1,279 in 2025.
• ✨New on the sceneRumi wasn't given to enough babies to be counted in 2000. It only took off after 2002.
• 🚀TrendRumi has climbed 962 places in the US rankings over the last five years and now sits at #1,279. Fast risers like this often keep climbing, so expect to hear it more.
• 📍Where it's lovedRumi is most popular in California, where it ranks #700, followed by Washington (#732) and Maryland (#840). It's in the top 1,000 in 4 states.
• ⚖️Boy or girlRumi is given to both boys and girls: 68% of the 256 babies named Rumi in 2025 were girls. That makes it one of the names that truly works for either.

About the name Rumi

Rumi is a gender-neutral name. It has 4 letters and 2 syllables, starting with R and ending in “-umi”. US birth records list Rumi for girls from 2002 to 2025, in 20 of those 24 years. Its best year was 2025, when it ranked #1,279 among girl names. In 2025 it ranked #1,279, with 175 babies. Of the 256 US babies named Rumi in 2025, 68% were girls and 32% were boys.