Entry № 8939 · Persian origin

Rumi Rumi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ROO-mee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Persian
Meaning
"Roman, beauty"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Persian)

A name that means "roman, beauty".

Rumi has parallel origins. In Persian, it is the byname of the 13th-century Sufi poet Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi (1207-1273), meaning "the Roman" (referring to Anatolia, then under the Roman/Byzantine cultural sphere). In Japanese (留美) it means "beauty" or "lapis lazuli."

Rumi entered the U.S. The Sufi poet remains one of the most widely-read poets in the English-speaking world.

The Sufi poet. Beyoncé's daughter.

The name in its native script.

رومی · 留美
Transliteration
Rūmī
Pronunciation
/ ˈruː.mi /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Rumi stands.

Rumi 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.

Rumis before her.

Real people
Jalal al-Din Rumi
Persian Sufi poet.
1207 – 1273
Rumi Carter
Daughter of Beyoncé and Jay-Z.
born 2017
In fiction

Names connected to Rumi.

The number behind Rumi.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Rumi reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.