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 2020
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- California#1,025 · 1 in 6,452
- New York#1,814 · 1 in 13,264
- Texas#2,256 · 1 in 19,118
Best ever in a state: #700 in California, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| California | #1,025 | 27 | 1 in 6,452 |
| New York | #1,814 | 6 | 1 in 13,264 |
| Texas | #2,256 | 8 | 1 in 19,118 |
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See more about Rumi
- 440 spots since 2024 (#1,719 → #1,279)
- 962 spots since 2020 (#2,241 → #1,279)
- 3,574 spots since 2015 (#4,853 → #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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
Rumi in 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
Top boys' names in 2020
More about 2020
girls
1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 20,207 of them was named Rumi, which outranked 87.2% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,216Rian81
- #2,216Terra81
- #2,216Yocheved81
- #2,241Rumi80
- #2,241Ameena80
- #2,241Analy80
- #2,241Anisa80
- #2,257Aleya79
- #2,257Azari79
- #2,257Cambrie79
Tied with 15 names at #2,241; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,726,076 boys got a published name in 2020; 1 in 28,768 of them was named Rumi, which outranked 83.9% of the 14,060 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,235Viraaj61
- #2,235Zabdiel61
- #2,235Zavien61
- #2,264Rumi60
- #2,264Abhiram60
- #2,264Aiyden60
- #2,264Alias60
- #2,292Aayush59
- #2,292Ahaan59
- #2,292Arnav59
Tied with 27 names at #2,264; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 380Vivaan#875 → #1,255
- ↓ 282Alexzander#890 → #1,172
- ↓ 268Reyansh#806 → #1,074
- ↓ 266Javion#949 → #1,215
- ↓ 224Kenny#862 → #1,086
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.