Given name
Sumie
“one who is elegant and refined”
Sumie is a variant of Sumi. One Japanese interpretation is “one who is elegant and refined.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Sumie is a variant of Sumi. One Japanese interpretation is “one who is elegant and refined.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Sumie is a variant of Sumi. An origin associated with Sumi is Japanese.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1915. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Sumie through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 223
- 0 boys · 223 girls
- Most popular year
- 1927
- 21 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 girls is 5 in 1940. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 21 in 1927. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 286 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.
Sumie’s family of names
Sumie has a related form in Sumi. In Japanese usage, Sumie is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 澄江.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Sumie
- Sumie OinumaJapanese volleyball playerborn 1946
- Sumie TanakaJapanese screenwriter and playwright1908–2000
- Sumie SakaiJapanese professional wrestler and mixed martial artistborn 1971
- Sumie BabaJapanese voice actressborn 1967
- Sumie SasakiJapanese actor and seiyū1928–2019
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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