Given name & surname
Kasumi
“from the mist”
Kasumi is used as a given name and a surname. One Japanese interpretation is “from the mist.”
Original Japanese嘉菫
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Japanese interpretation is “from the mist.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Japanese.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1991. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kasumi through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 115
- 0 boys · 115 girls
- Most popular year
- 2008
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #14,048 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −50%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 14,048 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 11 in 2008. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 253 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Kasumi’s family of names
Kasumi has a related form in Kasume. Kasumi has a related form in Kasumea. Kasumi has a related form in Kasumee.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 6
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 9
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
- 嘉菫original script · Japanese
- 圭純original script · Japanese
- かすみoriginal script · Japanese
- 嘉純original script · Japanese
- 架純original script · Japanese
- 嘉寿美original script · Japanese
- 花珠水original script · Japanese
- 香純original script · Japanese
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Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Kasumi
- Kasumi ArimuraJapanese actressborn 1993
- Kasumi IshikawaJapanese table tennis playerborn 1993
- Kasumi YamayaJapanese actressborn 1996
- Kasumi SuzukiJapanese actressborn 1990
- Kasumi NishiharaJapanese long-distance runnerborn 1989
- Kasumi NakaneJapanese idolborn 1982
Characters named Kasumi: Kasumi (Dead or Alive), Kasumi Tendo (Ranma½).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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