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Ayumi

#7,192 in 2025Girls' name

Walk, step

Ayumi has been given to 609 babies in the U.S. since 1966. In 2025 it ranked #7,192 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 28 recorded.

Babies named Ayumi, 2025

1 in 221,000

Ayumi over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010203018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ayumi: meaning, origin, and history

Walk, step

Japanese

What Ayumi means

Ayumi means “walk, step”.

Origin, language, and formation

Ayumi is used in English, French and Tagalog. Its origins include Japanese.

Ayumi comes through Japanese あゆみ.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Ayumi is pronounced /a.ju.mi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 609 girls were recorded with the name Ayumi between 1966 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 28 in 2023; its best national rank was #4,763 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,897 in 2020 to #7,192 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,682 in 2015 to #7,192 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Ayumi?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,192
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ayumi sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ayumi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ayumis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ayumi was born before 2010 — so the typical Ayumi is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
33.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
75.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
609
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Choose a decade

2010s — 33.2% of all recorded uses (202).

Is Ayumi rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+100
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,295
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,510
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.65×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
53.6%
Peak was 2023 (28)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,763
2023

Spellings of Ayumi

Ayumi is not the most common spelling — Ami is, with 24.3% against Ayumi's 1.9%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Ayumi is used

Across 1910–2025, Ayumi was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 227,301 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2New Jersey1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Ayumi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ayumi around the world

Where Ayumi ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2005–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • France
    1999–2025
    #3,562
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2015–2020
    #2,626
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    2011–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ayumi by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,192
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,295
Best rank ever
#4,763
2023
Peak year
2023
28 that year
First recorded
1966
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
609
Count in 2025
15

Names similar to Ayumi

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Ayumi

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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