Lumi
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- LOO-mee
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,642 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #1,942 for girls
Lumi is a girls' name, meaning “snow”. In 2025 it ranked 1,642nd for girls in the UK (19 babies) and 1,942nd for girls in the US (99 babies).
What does Lumi mean?
Finnish word name
“snow”
A Finnish name taken directly from the everyday Finnish word for snow.
Is Lumi a girl's or a boy's name?
Lumi is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 19 girls in the UK and 99 girls and 7 boys in the US.
How popular is Lumi in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,642nd among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 19 about 1 in 15,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 72% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 19 girls in the UK were named Lumi, making it the 1,642nd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,407th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 26 girls.
2025 had fewer girls named Lumi than any year since 2020.
Half of all the girls named Lumi in the UK since 1996 were born between 2019 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 22 girls in the UK were given Lumi or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,274, up from #1,642 for this spelling alone.
- Lumi 19
- Lumie 3
Among girls in 2025, it was 1,584th in England and Wales.
Lumi in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #1,642 |
| 2024 | 25 | #1,356 |
| 2023 | 23 | #1,451 |
| 2022 | 26 | #1,325 |
| 2021 | 20 | #1,605 |
| 2020 | 11 | #2,407 |
| 2019 | 20 | #1,599 |
| 2018 | 8 | #3,068 |
| 2017 | 8 | #3,102 |
| 2016 | 8 | #3,105 |
| 2015 | 4 | #4,951 |
| 2014 | 6 | #3,702 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 4 | #5,058 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 2 | #6,929 |
How popular is Lumi in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,942nd among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 99 about 1 in 16,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 69% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 99 girls in the US were named Lumi, making it the 1,942nd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,850th. It first appears in the records in 2008. 7 boys were also named Lumi in 2025 (9,710th for boys).
2025 had the most girls named Lumi of any year since it first appeared, in 2008.
Half of all the girls named Lumi in the US since 1880 were born between 2019 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
Lumi in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 99 | #1,942 |
| 2024 | 87 | #2,178 |
| 2023 | 86 | #2,195 |
| 2022 | 90 | #2,123 |
| 2021 | 57 | #2,929 |
| 2020 | 57 | #2,850 |
| 2019 | 68 | #2,561 |
| 2018 | 36 | #4,000 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,527 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,390 |
| 2015 | 12 | #8,926 |
| 2014 | 9 | #10,949 |
| 2013 | 9 | #10,995 |
| 2012 | 6 | #14,956 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,339 |
| 2010 | 5 | #16,985 |
| 2009 | 11 | #9,971 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,594 |
Names like Lumi
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Remi, Rumi, Suki, Kiki, Minha, Miri, Kiyomi, Yumna, Kyomi, Zuri, Yuna, Dakota
Names related to Lumi
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Lumi: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/lumi, updated 20 October 2026.