Umme
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- OOM-eh
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,107 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #10,104 for girls
Umme is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “mother of”. In 2025 it ranked 1,107th for girls in the UK (32 babies) and 10,104th for girls in the US (9 babies).
What does Umme mean?
Arabic: from umm, mother
“mother of”
Usually the first part of a compound name, such as Umme Kulsoom or Umme Habiba.
Is Umme a girl's or a boy's name?
Umme is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 32 girls in the UK and 9 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Umme in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,107th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 32 about 1 in 8,700 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 124% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 32 girls in the UK were named Umme, making it the 1,107th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,480th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 48 girls.
Half of all the girls named Umme in the UK since 1996 were born between 2007 and 2022. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.
In 2025, 37 girls in the UK were given Umme or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #904, up from #1,107 for this spelling alone.
- Umme 32
- Ume 5
Among girls in 2025, it was 1,133rd in England and Wales and 780th in Scotland.
Umme in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32 | #1,107 |
| 2024 | 48 | #826 |
| 2023 | 34 | #1,075 |
| 2022 | 28 | #1,248 |
| 2021 | 18 | #1,726 |
| 2020 | 22 | #1,480 |
| 2019 | 18 | #1,729 |
| 2018 | 11 | #2,464 |
| 2017 | 22 | #1,541 |
| 2016 | 26 | #1,361 |
| 2015 | 18 | #1,739 |
| 2014 | 24 | #1,418 |
| 2013 | 25 | #1,402 |
| 2012 | 14 | #2,103 |
| 2011 | 15 | #1,917 |
| 2010 | 18 | #1,694 |
| 2009 | 14 | #1,957 |
| 2008 | 18 | #1,620 |
| 2007 | 16 | #1,694 |
| 2006 | 17 | #1,545 |
| 2005 | 13 | #1,807 |
| 2004 | 12 | #1,812 |
| 2003 | 10 | #1,954 |
| 2002 | 11 | #1,755 |
| 2001 | 14 | #1,461 |
| 2000 | 10 | #1,792 |
| 1999 | 11 | #1,653 |
| 1998 | 12 | #1,585 |
| 1997 | 6 | #2,552 |
| 1996 | 12 | #1,520 |
How popular is Umme in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,104th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 9 about 1 in 180,000 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, 9 girls in the US were named Umme, making it the 10,104th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,401st. Its busiest year was 2020, with 12 girls. It first appears in the records in 2001.
Half of all the girls named Umme in the US since 1880 were born between 2016 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Umme in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,104 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,266 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,188 |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,586 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,141 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,401 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,442 |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,459 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,337 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,326 |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,477 |
| 2014 | 8 | #11,925 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,345 |
Names like Umme
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Zainab, Ayah, Hafsa, Hiba, Nusaybah, Rahma, Abeeha, Safaa, Ruqayyah, Aaliyah, Huda
Other spellings of Umme
Ume
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza
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, “Umme: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/umme, updated 20 October 2026.