Kumi
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Akan (Ghana): male name meaning 'forceful'; also Kiswahili for 'ten'
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/cʰʉmʲi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kumi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Japan than in any other country.
- JPJapan≈1 in 2.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 700K
- GHGhana≈1 in 14K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Japan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 118 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈56,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Japan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Akan (Ghana): male name meaning 'forceful'; also Kiswahili for 'ten'.
Sources 1
- African Names
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kumi 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JP Japan | #446 | ≈56,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Kumi | 112 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 14K | listed | Kumi | 19 |
| US United States | — | 475 | 1 in 700K | 475 | Kumi | 118 |
| HK Hong Kong | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 67K | — | Kumi | 5 |
| VN Vietnam | — | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Kumi | 14 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 637K | 1 | Kumi | 8 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 336K | — | Kumi | 8 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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)
Kumi is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Japanese, Rōmaji transcription of くみ
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Trenza
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Cebuano, a remora; any of various elongate brown fish from the family Echeneidae, the dorsal fin of which is in the form of a suction disc that can take a firm hold against the skin of larger marine animals
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tnt, whiskers, of people, cats, rats, antennae of shrimps or grasshoppers, barbels of fish
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In sxn, moustache, frayed end of a rope, etc.
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Kumi Mizunob. 1937JPJapanese actress
- Kumi Taguchib. 1952JPJapanese actress
- Kumi Naidoob. 1965ZAhuman rights activist
- Kumi Nakadab. 1965JPJapanese volleyball player
- Kumi Taniokab. 1974JPJapanese composer and pianist
- Kumi Sakumab. 1976JPJapanese voice actress
- Kumi Muronagab. 1978JPJapanese mangaka
- Kumi Tanakab. 1981JPJapanese voice actress
- Kumi Kōdab. 1982JPJapanese singer
- Kumi Yokoyamab. 1993JPJapanese association football 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 40 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 475 | #48,050 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 314 | #63,524 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 169 | #99,214 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Kumi mean, and where does it come from?
- Akan (Ghana): male name meaning 'forceful'; also Kiswahili for 'ten'. Recorded by African Names.
- How do you pronounce Kumi?
- A machine transcription gives /cʰʉmʲi/ (IPA) for Japanese.
- Is Kumi a male or female name?
- Kumi 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 Kumi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 56 thousand people named Kumi in Japan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kumi.
- How common is the name Kumi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 475 people named Kumi in 2020, about 1 in 700 thousand residents.
- How common is Kumi compared with other names?
- In Japan, Kumi is the 446th most common given name of 366,905 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kumi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kumiThe 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, “Kumi” — the 446th most common given name in Japan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.