Umi
A Japanese name meaning "sea". In Poland it is almost unused: only eight women carry it, all of them, and no newborn girls got it last year.
Umi Pronunciation
Umi is pronounced OO-mee (/ˈumi/).
What Umi means
Where Umi comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Umi comes from the Japanese word 海, read "umi," which means the sea. On this Polish site the origin is filed as "other," a way of marking that it does not descend from the Latin, Greek, or Hebrew roots behind most names in the register. Its meaning stays plain across languages: sea in English, morze in Polish.
In Japanese the word is ordinary speech long before it is anyone's name. A child learning to write meets the character 海 early. As a given name Umi reads as open water, and it suits girls and boys alike, without a separate diminutive or a variant to soften it.
A Polish class register would hold Umi between longer Slavic names. Short one. Four letters, two syllables. A teacher calls it easily at roll. It has no imieniny fixed in the Polish calendar, so a family marking a name-day would settle on the date themselves. The meaning underneath does not move: morze, the sea.
How many people are named Umi
1 in 2817979 women in Poland is named Umi. 8 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #19667 among female names.