Given name & surname
Izumi
“spring; fountain”
Izumi is a unisex given name from Japanese, meaning “spring; fountain.”
Original Japanese愛
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1998. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Izumi through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 168
- 0 boys · 168 girls
- Most popular year
- 2022
- 21 babies
- 2025
- 20
- #5,999 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +159%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 20 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 5,999 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 679 as a first name in 2020; 588 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Izumi’s family of names
In Japanese usage, Izumi is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 愛. In English usage, Izumi was borrowed from the Japanese form 泉. In Japanese usage, Izumi as a surname is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 泉水.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 6
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Izumi
- Izumi ShikibuJapanese poet976–1033
- Izumi SakaiJapanese singer (1967–2007)
- Izumi MatsumotoJapanese manga artist (1958-2020)
- Izumi InamoriJapanese actressborn 1972
- Izumi KobayashiJapanese Go playerborn 1977
- Izumi KittaJapanese voice actressborn 1984
- Izumi AshikawaJapanese actressborn 1935
- Izumi YukimuraJapanese singer, actress, painter (1937-)
- Izumi SuzukiJapanese writer, actress (1946-1986)1949–1986
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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