Uma
#2,998 for girls in 2025, 55 births
- Peak · girls
- 2006 · 81 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,901since 1961
Uma over time
Rank among girls' names. Uma has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,998 | 55 |
| 2024 | #2,722 | 63 |
| 2023 | #2,466 | 72 |
| 2022 | #2,463 | 73 |
| 2021 | #2,484 | 71 |
| 2020 | #2,468 | 70 |
| 2019 | #2,482 | 71 |
| 2018 | #2,532 | 69 |
| 2017 | #2,464 | 73 |
| 2016 | #2,560 | 69 |
| 2015 | #2,685 | 66 |
| 2014 | #2,351 | 78 |
| 2013 | #2,936 | 57 |
| 2012 | #2,401 | 77 |
| 2011 | #2,838 | 61 |
| 2010 | #2,870 | 60 |
| 2009 | #2,892 | 60 |
| 2008 | #3,316 | 50 |
| 2007 | #2,616 | 70 |
| 2006 | #2,328 | 81 |
| 2005 | #2,607 | 65 |
| 2004 | #2,808 | 57 |
| 2003 | #3,085 | 48 |
| 2002 | #3,730 | 35 |
| 2001 | #3,486 | 38 |
| 2000 | #2,672 | 55 |
| 1999 | #4,088 | 28 |
| 1998 | #3,573 | 33 |
| 1997 | #3,716 | 30 |
| 1996 | #4,184 | 25 |
| 1995 | #5,221 | 18 |
| 1994 | #8,122 | 10 |
| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 |
| 1992 | #8,734 | 9 |
| 1991 | #10,271 | 7 |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 |
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| 1988 | #8,391 | 8 |
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| 1986 | #8,523 | 7 |
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| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 |
| 1982 | #8,224 | 7 |
| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 |
| 1980 | #8,178 | 7 |
| 1979 | #8,061 | 7 |
| 1978 | #7,649 | 7 |
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| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 |
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| 1972 | #5,959 | 8 |
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| 1970 | #7,070 | 6 |
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| 1966 | #4,866 | 8 |
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| 1961 | #6,567 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Uma! It came in at #6,567, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1961–1965, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Uma
- 276 spots since 2024 (#2,722 → #2,998)
- 530 spots since 2020 (#2,468 → #2,998)
- 313 spots since 2015 (#2,685 → #2,998)
- Debuted 1961
- Peaked 2006 at #2,328 (81 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 22,286 girls born in 2023 were named Uma (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 29,223 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,328 in 2006, was only 1 in 23,472 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 35.8% of all girls named Uma (681) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 13 | #4,866 (1966) | #5,717 |
| 1970s | 33 | #5,959 (1972) | #7,605 |
| 1980s | 41 | #8,128 (1981) | #8,620 |
| 1990s | 170 | #3,573 (1998) | #7,431 |
| 2000s | 559 | #2,328 (2006) | #2,954 |
| 2010s | 681 | #2,351 (2014) | #2,612 |
| 2020s | 404 | #2,463 (2022) | #2,600 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Uma in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
More about 2016
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1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 25,681 of them was named Uma, which outranked 86.4% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,539Nilah70
- #2,539Swara70
- #2,539Zipporah70
- #2,560Uma69
- #2,560Aariyah69
- #2,560Adella69
- #2,560Adira69
- #2,594Abigayle68
- #2,594Ainara68
- #2,594Alyza68
Tied with 33 names at #2,560; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.