Umay

#10,843 in 2025Girls' name

Womb or placenta

Umay has been given to 22 babies in the U.S. since 2024. In 2025 it ranked #10,843 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Umay, 2025

1 in 368,000

Umay over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Umay: meaning, origin, and history

Womb or placenta

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Umay means

Umay means “womb or placenta”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 22 girls were recorded with the name Umay between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2024; its best national rank was #8,398 in 2024.

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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Umay?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 368,000; 9 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 179,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #10,843; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 255,323 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Umay 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Umay. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Umays were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Umay was born before 2024 — so the typical Umay is around 1 today.

Median birth year: 2024; About 1 years old
Biggest decade: 2020s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 22; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (22).

Is Umay 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: −2,445; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 69.2%; Peak was 2024 (13)
Years since peak: 1; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #8,398; 2024

Spellings of Umay

Umay is not the most common spelling — Mary is, with 75.9% against Umay's <0.01%.

Mary75.9%4,141,481
Amy12.9%701,631
Maya2.3%123,587
Mae2.1%114,835
Kay1.8%98,621
May0.91%49,400
Amaya0.80%43,525
Macy0.60%32,749

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.

Umay around the world

Where Umay 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
1998–2025
#4,867
in 2025
France
2017–2025
#1,640
in 2025
Canada
2024–2024
#2,710
in 2024

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

Umay by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #10,843
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: New entry
Best rank ever: #8,398; 2024
Peak year: 2024; 13 that year
First recorded: 2024
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 22
Count in 2025: 9

Names similar to Umay

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

Umai Umaira Umamah Umayma Umaima Umaya Umama Lilymay Ezmay Samay Umayah Umaiza Ismay Ilomay Camay Jamay Renezmay Esmay Edmay Umaimah Rosemay Uma Idamay Ednamay

Sibling names for Umay

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

For a sister

Annabell Abagail Leonor Sydnie Karleigh Rhianna Alysa Adelle

For a brother

Aaden Kale Evans Hamilton Caesar Brennen Tobin Jerimiah

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