Ayumi
Ayumi is a girl name of Japanese origin, meaning Sea.
What Ayumi means
Sea.
Ayumi sits at 5 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Ayumi comes from
Japanese given names are written in kanji, and the characters chosen carry the meaning as much as the sound does. The same pronunciation can be written several different ways, each shading the sense differently, so parents pick characters as deliberately as they pick the name itself.
Ayumi is recorded as Japanese in origin. Browse other Japanese names.
How popular is Ayumi?
In the girl name rankings we track, Ayumi falls outside the top 100. That puts it in the broad middle ground where most names live: familiar to those who know it, uncommon enough to still feel like a choice.
The character of Ayumi
We group Ayumi under Ocean. If that is the quality drawing you to it, the theme link below collects every other name we hold in the same group.
Themes: Ocean
Names like Ayumi
These share Ayumi's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Ageha — Waves.
- Asumi — Sea.
- Nanami — Seven seas.
- Fuka — Sea.
- Hiromi — Sea.
- Ikumi — Sea.
- Natsuki — Seasons.
- Natsumi — Sea.
- Nozomi — Sea.
- Tsumugi — Seasons.
- Kaito — Ocean; to soar, to fly.
- Adriana — From the sea; dark one.