Ume
- Gender
- Girl
- Origin
- Japanese
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,276 for girls
Ume is a girls' name of Japanese origin. In 2025 it ranked 4,276th for girls in the UK (5 babies).
What does Ume mean?
Japanese
A female given name from Japanese.
From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Ume a girl's or a boy's name?
Ume is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Ume in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,276th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 56,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the UK were named Ume, making it the 4,276th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2006, with 5 girls.
2025 had more girls named Ume than any year since 2006.
In 2025, 37 girls in the UK were given Ume or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #904, up from #4,276 for this spelling alone.
- Umme 32
- Ume 5
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,200th in England and Wales.
Ume in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #4,276 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 3 | #5,929 |
| 2022 | 3 | #5,885 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 4 | #5,058 |
| 2011 | 3 | #6,007 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 4 | #4,795 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 3 | #5,415 |
| 2006 | 5 | #3,724 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 3 | #4,789 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 4 | #3,427 |
| 2000 | 4 | #3,399 |
Names like Ume
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Zainab, Hafsa, Uma, Sumayyah, Hiba, Farah, Reem, Halima, Umaymah, Aaliyah, Safiya
Other spellings of Ume
More Japanese names
Kobe, Kaizen, Raiden, Ren, Akari, Kenzo, Ronin, Kyomi, Akira, Yuna, Emi, Kiyomi, Kairi, Miya, Kenji, Reo
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Ume: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/ume, updated 20 October 2026.