Ruma
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɹumə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ruma is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country. In Bangladesh it is the 80th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Proto-Germanic *Rūmō.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 3.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- AMArmenia≈1 in 422as Ռիմա
- GEGeorgia1 in 1.6Kas რიმა
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ruma itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- #853 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 305 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈91,000 named Римма, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Rima in US United States, SY Syria, GE Georgia and 2 more, Римма in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, Ռիմա in AM Armenia and Reema in SA Saudi Arabia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Proto-Germanic *Rūmō.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ruma counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #110 | ≈91,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | #71 | Римма | 159 |
| BD Bangladesh | #80 | ≈52,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | listed | Ruma | 50 |
| DZ Algeria | #203 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | listed | Rima | 35 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #202 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Reema | 119 |
| UA Ukraine | #180 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | — | Римма | 48 |
| SY Syria | #241 | ≈8,600 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Rima | 32 |
| AM Armenia | #87 | ≈7,200 est. | ≈1 in 422 | — | Ռիմա | 36 |
| US United States | — | 4,183as Rima | 1 in 80K | 4.2K | Rima | 305 |
| GE Georgia | #233 | 2,561as რიმა | 1 in 1.6K | 2.6K | Rima | 26 |
| LB Lebanon | #418 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Rima | 69 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); the dz-kaggle-names register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ruma is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In scn, Rome (a major city, the capital of Italy and the Italian region of Lazio, located on the Tiber River; the ancient capital of the Roman Empire)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bbc, house, especially the beautifully constructed houses of the wealthy
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Finnish, ugly (displeasing to the eye or ear)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In aia, a house, oblong in shape; a family
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In wrp, house; shop; branch of a family
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In got, romanization of 𐍂𐌿𐌼𐌰
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Aseda Khatun Rumab. 1978BDbadminton player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 28 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 411 | #23,344 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 9 | #23,344 |
| DZ Algeria | Algerian names (Kaggle, MIT) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ruma mean, and where does it come from?
- From Proto-Germanic *Rūmō. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Ruma?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹumə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Ruma a male or female name?
- Ruma is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Ruma have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 91 thousand people named Римма in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Ruma?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,183 people named Rima in 2020, about 1 in 80 thousand residents.
- How common is Ruma compared with other names?
- In Russia, Ruma is the 110th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ruma?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rumaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ruma” — the 110th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.