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Lumi

#1,953 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Snow

Lumi has been given to 712 babies in the U.S. since 2008. In 2025 it ranked #1,953 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 99 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 95% girls, 5% boys all-time.

Babies named Lumi, 2025

1 in 33,500

Lumi over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Lumi over time

In 2025, Lumi went to 93% girls and 7% boys.

20082025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Lumi: meaning, origin, and history

Snow

Finnish

What Lumi means

Lumi means “snow”, associated with lumi.

Origin, language, and formation

Lumi is used in Finnish. Its origins include Finnish.

Lumi is a modern formation.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Lumi is pronounced /ˈlumi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 679 girls were recorded with the name Lumi between 2008 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 99 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,953 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,874 in 2020 to #1,953 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,276 in 2015 to #1,953 in 2025.

In the United States, 33 boys were recorded with the name Lumi between 2018 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2023; its best national rank was #9,427 in 2023.

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 Lumi?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 33,500
99 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 16,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,953
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
23,212 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lumi 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 23,212 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lumi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lumis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lumi was born before 2022 — so the typical Lumi is around 3 today.

Median birth year
2022
About 3 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
70.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
679
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 70.1% of all recorded uses (476).

Is Lumi 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
+237
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+921
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+7,323
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
8.25×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (99)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,953
2025

Spellings of Lumi

Lumi is not the most common spelling — Lori is, with 28.6% against Lumi's 0.06%.

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 Lumi is used

Across 1910–2025, Lumi was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 248,530 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. 2Washington1 in 100,000
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Minnesota1 in —
  5. 5New York1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 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. Lumi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lumi around the world

Where Lumi 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
    2012–2025
    #1,584
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2025–2025
    #885
    in 2025
  • France
    2005–2025
    #3,103
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2016–2024
    #1,615
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Lumi by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,953
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 921
Best rank ever
#1,953
2025
Peak year
2025
99 that year
First recorded
2008
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
679
Count in 2025
99

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,280
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#9,427
2023
Peak year
2023
8 that year
First recorded
2018
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
33
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Lumi

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

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Sibling names for Lumi

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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