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Umu

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Umu has been given to 27 babies in the U.S. since 2007. 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 2011, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Umu, 2019

1 in 496,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Umu: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Umu means

Umu is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Umu is used in Turkish.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 27 girls were recorded with the name Umu between 2007 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2011; its best national rank was #12,078 in 2011.

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 Umu?

Umu had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 496,000
7 of 3,472,229 births
Among girls only
1 in 240,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
343,825 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Umu 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 2019 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 343,825 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Umu. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Umus were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Umu was born before 2011 — so the typical Umu is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
81.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
27
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 81.5% of all recorded uses (22).

Is Umu 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2011 (9)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#12,078
2011

Umu around the world

Where Umu 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
    2004–2004
    #4,598
    in 2004
  • South Australia
    2011–2011
    #840
    in 2011

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.

Umu 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
—
Best rank ever
#12,078
2011
Peak year
2011
9 that year
First recorded
2007
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
27
Count in 2025
Under 5

Sibling names for Umu

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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