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Uma

#3,025 in 2025Girls' name

Flax (Linum usitatissimum), through उमा

Uma has been given to 1,901 babies in the U.S. since 1961. In 2025 it ranked #3,025 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 81 recorded.

Babies named Uma, 2025

1 in 60,300

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Uma: meaning, origin, and history

Flax (Linum usitatissimum), through उमा

Sanskrit

What Uma means

Uma belongs to the name family reached through Uma → उमा. Its meaning is “flax (Linum usitatissimum)”.

Origin, language, and formation

Uma is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Uma comes through Sanskrit उमा.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include उमा.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,901 girls were recorded with the name Uma between 1961 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 81 in 2006; its best national rank was #2,349 in 2006.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,499 in 2020 to #3,025 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,709 in 2015 to #3,025 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 Uma?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 60,300
55 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 29,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,025
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
41,781 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Uma 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 41,781 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Uma. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Umas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Uma was born before 2012 — so the typical Uma is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
35.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
83.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,901
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 35.8% of all recorded uses (681).

Is Uma 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
−279
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−526
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−316
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.83×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
67.9%
Peak was 2006 (81)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,349
2006

Where Uma is used

Across 2016–2025, Uma was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 8,333 girls, against 1 in 21,147 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 100,000).

112 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 8,333
  2. 2California1 in 12,500
  3. 3Oregon1 in 14,286
  4. 4Massachusetts1 in 50,000
  5. 5Texas1 in 50,000
  6. 6Washington1 in 50,000
  7. 7Florida1 in 100,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in 100,000

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.

Uma around the world

Where Uma 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
    1996–2025
    #1,133
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2011–2020
    #834
    in 2020
  • France
    1997–2025
    #1,678
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1998–2024
    #2,256
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1976–1976
    #645
    in 1976

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, 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. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Uma by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,025
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 526
Best rank ever
#2,349
2006
Peak year
2006
81 that year
First recorded
1961
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,901
Count in 2025
55

Names similar to Uma

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

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Sibling names for Uma

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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