Rumi
- #1,279 for girls in 2025, 175 births
- #1,919 for boys in 2025, 81 births
- Given to girls 58.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 175 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 953since 2002
Rumi over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,279 | 175 | #1,919 | 81 |
| 2024 | #1,719 | 118 | #2,133 | 69 |
| 2023 | #1,922 | 103 | #2,244 | 63 |
| 2022 | #1,885 | 107 | #2,438 | 57 |
| 2021 | #2,103 | 90 | #2,193 | 64 |
| 2020 | #2,241 | 80 | #2,264 | 60 |
| 2019 | #2,593 | 67 | #2,525 | 52 |
| 2018 | #3,559 | 43 | #2,507 | 51 |
| 2017 | #4,922 | 27 | #3,440 | 32 |
| 2016 | #4,850 | 28 | #4,098 | 25 |
| 2015 | #4,853 | 28 | #4,711 | 20 |
| 2014 | #6,987 | 17 | #7,562 | 10 |
| 2013 | #6,255 | 20 | #7,537 | 10 |
| 2012 | #9,711 | 11 | #6,626 | 12 |
| 2011 | #11,181 | 9 | #7,009 | 11 |
| 2010 | #14,959 | 6 | #7,591 | 10 |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 | #8,985 | 8 |
| 2008 | — | #11,037 | 6 | |
| 2007 | #12,676 | 8 | #8,173 | 9 |
| 2006 | #17,168 | 5 | #10,662 | 6 |
| 2005 | — | #8,299 | 8 | |
| 2004 | — | #8,927 | 7 | |
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| 2002 | #13,595 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Rumi! It came in at #13,595, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2003–2006, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Rumi is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#700 · 1 in 3,676
- Washington#732 · 1 in 3,608
- Maryland#840 · 1 in 3,997
- New York#859 · 1 in 4,352
- New Jersey#1,036 · 1 in 5,917
Best ever in a state: #700 in California, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| California | #700 | 44 | 1 in 3,676 |
| Washington | #732 | 8 | 1 in 3,608 |
| Maryland | #840 | 5 | 1 in 3,997 |
| New York | #859 | 18 | 1 in 4,352 |
| New Jersey | #1,036 | 6 | 1 in 5,917 |
| North Carolina | #1,138 | 7 | 1 in 6,640 |
| Virginia | #1,180 | 5 | 1 in 6,748 |
| Texas | #1,352 | 18 | 1 in 8,919 |
| Georgia | #1,533 | 5 | 1 in 9,042 |
| Florida | #1,545 | 8 | 1 in 10,845 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Rumi
- 962 spots since 2020 (#2,241 → #1,279)
- Debuted 2002
- Peaked 2025 at #1,279 (175 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 9,184 girls born in 2025 were named Rumi (0.01%)
- 70.6% of all girls named Rumi (673) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2018, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 2000s | 24 | #12,676 (2007) | #15,183 |
| 2010s | 256 | #2,593 (2019) | #6,987 |
| 2020s | 673 | #1,279 (2025) | #1,858 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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