Mayumi
Feminine
Mayumi is a Japanese name, and like most Japanese names its meaning lives in the characters a family chooses. It is also the ordinary Japanese word for a spindle tree and for a kind of bow.
How old is the name Mayumi?
Mayumi first appears in US birth records in 1963 — 62 years ago. The typical Mayumi alive today was born around 2010, making them about 15 years old. About 700 people named Mayumi are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Mayumi most popular?
Mayumi peaked in 2025, reaching #3577 nationally. Today it ranks #3577, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Mayumi
Ours, offered as ours. There is a real tree behind this sound: mayumi names a spindle tree whose wood was strong and springy enough for bows, which is why the word for the tree and the word for the bow are the same. A family writing the name may choose characters for that, or for truth and beauty, or for something else entirely — and the Roman spelling carries none of it. That loss is worth naming rather than filling in with one meaning chosen at random.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The sound is fixed and the writing is not. Common character combinations give elements such as true, reason, beauty and bow, so the name can mean true beauty, true reason or true bow depending on the choice. Japanese mayumi is also the name of a tree whose wood was used for bows.
Pronouncing Mayumi
mah-YOO-mee
Three syllables, evenly weighted in Japanese. English speakers stress the middle.
Nicknames for Mayumi
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1963
- Most girls named
- 202542 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3577reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +27.3%42 in 2025, from 33
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Mayumi in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Mayumi in Japanese — transliteration
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, New York.
Mayumis among us
people named Mayumi are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 38,268 born in 2025 was named Mayumi
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Angell test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Mayumi's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Angell climbed just as high around 1970, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Angell's path sketches the road Mayumi is walking now.
Mayumi sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Mayumi is headed
Mayumi looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 29% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Mayumi beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Mayumi in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Open vowels throughout, so it is readable in English, Spanish and Japanese alike.
- Mayu and Yumi are both complete Japanese names in their own right.
- It has a long and ordinary record as a women's name in Japan.
- The meaning lives in characters a Roman spelling cannot carry, so the honest answer is a range.
- Japanese pitch and English stress differ, so the name is said noticeably differently.
- Six letters and three syllables is a fair amount for early handwriting.
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Frequently asked
- How many Mayumis are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Mayumi are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Mayumi in 2025?
- Mayumi ranks #3577 among US girl names in 2025, with 42 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Mayumi?
- About 1 in every 38,268 US girls born in 2025 was named Mayumi — 42 in all.
- Will my child share the name Mayumi with classmates?
- Mayumi will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Mayumi
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
Delphine#3577 · Evelyne#3577 · Ellanor#3577 · Gwenevere#3577 · Lian#3577 · Katya#3577 · Kolby#3577 · Cherry#3577
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US figures from the Social Security Administration. 1880–2025. Data & methodology
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