Ayumu
Ayumu is a unisex Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:Ayumu Goromaru , Japanese rugby union player Ayumu Gunji , Japanese professional wrestler Ayumu Hirano , Japanese snowboarder Ayumu Honda , Japanese professional wrestler Ayumu Ishikawa , Japanese baseball player Ayumu Iwasa , Japanese racing driver Ayumu Kameda , Japanese professional footballer Ayumu Kawai , Japanese…
- Japanese
Meaning & Origin of Ayumu
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Ayumu is a unisex Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:Ayumu Goromaru , Japanese rugby union player Ayumu Gunji , Japanese professional wrestler Ayumu Hirano , Japanese snowboarder Ayumu Honda , Japanese professional wrestler Ayumu Ishikawa , Japanese baseball player Ayumu Iwasa , Japanese racing driver Ayumu Kameda , Japanese professional footballer Ayumu Kawai , Japanese…
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Japanese
The Story of Ayumu
The earliest SSA record of Ayumu as a baby boy name dates back to 2001, when 6 babies received it. 2001 was its biggest year on record, with 6 newborns named Ayumu — #9,243 in the national rankings. About 38% of every Ayumu on record arrived during the 2000s, its defining decade. Ayumu last appeared in the published SSA data in 2022, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 16 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 2000s to the 2020s.
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About the name Ayumu
Ayumu is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 2001 and has accumulated 16 births in the dataset. Ayumu's peak popularity came in 2001 when it ranked #9,243. Use the chart and map above to compare Ayumu's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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