Entry № 4735 · Japanese origin

Izumi Izumi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ee-ZOO-mee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Japanese
Meaning
"Spring of water (Heian poet Izumi Shikibu)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Japanese)

A name that means "spring of water (heian poet izumi shikibu)".

Izumi (泉) is the Japanese word for "spring of water, fountain." Izumi Shikibu (c. 976-?) was the Heian-period waka poet famous for her passionate love poetry — included in the imperial poetry anthologies. Her affairs with two imperial princes were the scandal of the Heian court, and her Izumi Shikibu Diary is a masterpiece of intimate court literature.

Used widely in modern Japan.

Spring of water. The Heian love-poet whose affairs scandalized the imperial court.

The name in its native script.

Transliteration
Izumi
Pronunciation
/ ɪˈzuː.mi /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Izumi stands.

Izumi does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Izumis before her.

Real people
Izumi Shikibu
Heian waka poet.
c. 976 – ?
In fiction
Izumi
The Izumi Shikibu Diary.

Names connected to Izumi.

The number behind Izumi.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Izumi reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.