Rumi

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Rumi: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Rumi: Recorded since 2000, its highest recorded position is #929, and it stood at #1,132 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
29times a registrar ranked it
25years from first to last
#929highest recorded position
6groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2000–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2000	#3912
2001	#3998
2003	#4373
2015	#5730
2016	#4096
2017	#3583
2018	#3178
2019	#1854
2020	#2615
2021	#1454
2022	#1416
2023	#1108
2024	#1353

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 13 of the 25 years from 2000 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 2000–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2000
First recorded at #3912 among girls in England and Wales in 2000 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2009–2024
Highest recorded position: #929 among boys in England and Wales, in 2023 (recorded 2009–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1353 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Rumi appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, with 16 ranked years and 195 births registered; the earliest is England and Wales · Girls, from 2000.

Rumi across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Rumi's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3912 (2000)	#1108 (2023)	#1353 (2024)	13 of 25	151 (2000–2024)	30 (2023)
England and Wales · Boys	#4527 (2009)	#929 (2023)	#1132 (2024)	16 of 16	195 (2009–2024)	33 (2023)

Rumi by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Rumi in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	3	1 of 10	3
2010s	80	10 of 10	8
2020sbusiest	112	5 of 10	22

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 22 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Rumi appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2000 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #929 in England and Wales in 2023.

Rumi's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1353	24	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#1132	25	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1108	30	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#929	33	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1416	22	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1314	20	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1454	21	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1290	20	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2615	9	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1635	14	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1854	15	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1369	18	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#3178	7	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1097	25	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#3583	6	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#3040	6	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#4096	5	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#3079	6	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#5730	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3373	5	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#4632	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#3315	5	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3416	5	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#3830	4	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#4678	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#4527	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#4373	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3998	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3912	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 2000 and 2024, ranked in 19 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #929, first reached in 2023.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 33 births, registered in England and Wales in 2023.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 5 years.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Ahyan · #927, 19y
Khari · #925, 22y
Gracie-Leigh · #934, 19y
Lacie-Mae · #934, 17y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Ahyan · #927, 19y
Agam · #924, 13y
Gracie-Leigh · #934, 19y
Lacie-Mae · #934, 17y

Rumi was ranked #929 in England and Wales · Boys in 2023. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Rumi and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Rumi without appearing here.

Rumi moved ahead of

Tracy Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2615 and #2449 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1454 and #5581.
Finley Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3178 and #2674 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #1854 and #5591.
Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3178 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #1854 and #5591.
Garry Compare
In 2017 they stood at #3079 and #3079 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #1097 and #4749.

Moved the opposite way to Rumi

Abigail Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rumi went from #3912 to #1353 while Abigail went from #19 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rumi went from #3912 to #1353 while Aimee went from #72 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rumi went from #3912 to #1353 while Aisling went from #443 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rumi went from #3912 to #1353 while Alex went from #186 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Rumi

Ada Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rumi went from #3912 to #1353 and Ada from #1831 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rumi went from #3912 to #1353 and Alma from #2416 to #234.
Amalie Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rumi went from #3912 to #1353 and Amalie from #3912 to #1128.
Amelia Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rumi went from #3912 to #1353 and Amelia from #35 to #2.

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2000 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #929 in England and Wales in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Rumi

Rumi at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Rumi across 2 official records

Rumi by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Rumi appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 2000s

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Rumi at a glance

Rumi across 2 official records

Rumi by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Rumi appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Names published alongside Rumi

Rumi and the names beside it

Rumi moved ahead of

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