Entry № 11019 · Japanese origin

Uzume Uzume — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ oo-ZOO-meh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Japanese
Meaning
"Goddess of dawn and mirth"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Antiquity

A name that means "goddess of dawn and mirth".

Uzume is the Japanese goddess of dawn, mirth and dance, whose joyful performance coaxed the sun back into the sky.

Goddess of dawn and mirth — a Japanese name.

The name in its native script.

Uzume
Transliteration
Uzume
Pronunciation
/ uˈzu.me /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Uzume stands.

Uzume 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.

Uzumes before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Uzume.

The number behind Uzume.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Uzume reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.