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Sumi

#16,979 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Sumi has been given to 211 babies in the U.S. since 1916. In 2025 it ranked #16,979 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1922, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Sumi, 2025

1 in 663,000

Sumi over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sumi: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sumi means

Sumi is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Sumi is used in Sakizaya.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Sakizaya, Sumi is pronounced /su.ˈmi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 211 girls were recorded with the name Sumi between 1916 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1922; its best national rank was #3,533 in 1927.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #14,899 in 2020 to #16,979 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 Sumi?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#16,979
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sumi 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sumi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sumis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sumi was born before 1963 — so the typical Sumi is around 62 today.

Median birth year
1963
About 62 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
31.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
31.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
113
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1920s — 31.8% of all recorded uses (67).

Is Sumi 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,080
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
55.6%
Peak was 1922 (9)
Years since peak
103
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,533
1927

Spellings of Sumi

Sumi is not the most common spelling — Sue is, with 29.8% against Sumi's 0.04%.

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 Sumi is used

Across 1910–2025, Sumi was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,455,707 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Sumi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sumi around the world

Where Sumi 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
    2007–2007
    #5,201
    in 2007
  • South Australia
    1989–1989
    #692
    in 1989

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Sumi by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#16,979
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,080
Best rank ever
#3,533
1927
Peak year
1922
9 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
211
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Sumi

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

SumnerSummitSumeyaSumieBhumiUmiIzumiLumiSumaSumerRumiAzumiFumiYumiSumayyaAyumiSummarSumanSumayahSumaiyaCumiKasumiSumireSumar

Sibling names for Sumi

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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