Entry № 10917 · Korean origin

Umji Umji — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ OOM-jee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Korean
Meaning
"Kim Ye-won (Umji) - GFRIEND maknae + VIVIZ K-pop"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Korean)

A name that means "kim ye-won (umji) - gfriend maknae + viviz k-pop".

Umji is from the Korean stage name umji — variant of pure-Korean eomji (엄지 — thumb, meaning the best, top one).

Thumb / the best (Korean).

The name in its native script.

엄지 / 김예원
Transliteration
Um-ji
Pronunciation
/ ˈʌm.dʒi /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Umji stands.

Umji 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.

Umjis before her.

Real people
Umji (Kim Ye-won, GFRIEND)
GFRIEND maknae + VIVIZ.
born 1998
In fiction
Umji
Korean thumb / the best.

Names connected to Umji.

The number behind Umji.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Umji reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.