Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Ayumu isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2001. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ayumu through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 16
- 16 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2001
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 6 in 2001.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ayumu’s family of names
In Japanese usage, Ayumu is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 歩. In Japanese usage, Ayumu is a transliteration of 歩.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Ayumu
- Ayumu SekoJapanese association football playerborn 2000
- Ayumu HiranoJapanese snowboarderborn 1998
- Ayumu ŌhataJapanese association football playerborn 2001
- Ayumu TachibanaJapanese association football playerborn 1995
- Ayumu MuraseJapanese voice actorborn 1988
- Ayumu IwasaJapanese racing driverborn 2001
- Ayumu GoromaruJapanese rugby union footballerborn 1986
- Ayumu SasakiJapanese motorcycle racerborn 2000
- Ayumu WatanabeJapanese animatorborn 1966
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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