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Yumi

#3,027 in 2025Girls' name

弓: bow; archery, through ゆみ

Yumi has been given to 1,022 babies in the U.S. since 1960. In 2025 it ranked #3,027 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 55 recorded.

Babies named Yumi, 2025

1 in 60,300

Yumi over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yumi: meaning, origin, and history

弓: bow; archery, through ゆみ

Japanese

What Yumi means

Yumi belongs to the name family reached through Yumi → ゆみ. Its meaning is “弓: bow; archery”.

Origin, language, and formation

Yumi is used in English and French. Its origins include Japanese.

Yumi comes through Japanese ゆみ.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include ゆみ.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Yumi is pronounced /ju.mi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,022 girls were recorded with the name Yumi between 1960 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 55 in 2025; its best national rank was #3,027 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,751 in 2020 to #3,027 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,848 in 2015 to #3,027 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 Yumi?

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
#3,027
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
41,781 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yumi 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 Yumi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yumis were born

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

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
26.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
67.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,022
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 26.7% of all recorded uses (273).

Is Yumi 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
+53
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,724
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,821
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.90×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (55)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,027
2025

Spellings of Yumi

Yumi is not the most common spelling — Tami is, with 17.1% against Yumi's 0.46%.

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 Yumi is used

Across 1910–2025, Yumi was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 143,662 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 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. Yumi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yumi around the world

Where Yumi 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
    2001–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • France
    1984–2025
    #1,171
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2011–2024
    #1,968
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1998–2012
    #871
    in 2012

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

Yumi by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,027
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,724
Best rank ever
#3,027
2025
Peak year
2025
55 that year
First recorded
1960
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,022
Count in 2025
55

Names similar to Yumi

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

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Sibling names for Yumi

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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