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Sumire

Girls' name

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Sumire has been given to 114 babies in the U.S. since 1994. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2018, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Sumire, 2024

1 in 418,000

Sumire over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sumire: meaning, origin, and history

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Japanese

What Sumire means

Sumire is documented with more than one possible Japanese character combination. The Latin-letter spelling records a pronunciation; it does not specify one unique kanji spelling or one universal meaning.

Possible character meanings include violet (flower).

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Sumire is used in Japanese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /sɨᵝ.mi.ɾe̞/ for Sumire.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 114 girls were recorded with the name Sumire between 1994 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2018; its best national rank was #9,738 in 2018.

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.

How common is Sumire?

Sumire had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 418,000
8 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 203,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
289,633 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sumire 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 2024 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 289,633 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sumire. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sumires were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sumire was born before 2016 — so the typical Sumire is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
53.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
91.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
114
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 53.5% of all recorded uses (61).

Is Sumire 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
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2018 (11)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
45.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#9,738
2018

Spellings of Sumire

Sumire is not the most common spelling — Susie is, with 81.3% against Sumire's 0.11%.

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.

Sumire by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#9,738
2018
Peak year
2018
11 that year
First recorded
1994
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
114
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sumire

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

SumnerSummitSumeyaNyaireSumairaSumiyeAdmireSumiyaDazireSumayoKyaireAdaireMaguireSyaireSumayyaAmireMyaireSumiLeireSummarSumayahSumaiyaSumedhaSumana

Sibling names for Sumire

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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