Given name & surname
Yuma
“the son of a chief”
Yuma is used as a given name and a surname. One Native American interpretation is “the son of a chief.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Native American interpretation is “the son of a chief.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Native American.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1974. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yuma through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 460
- 357 boys · 103 girls
- Most popular year
- 2008
- 25 babies
- 2025
- 15
- #8,231 for boys · #17,211 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −36%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 10 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 8,231 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 21 in 2014. It also appeared in 5 birth records for girls in 2025. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 543 as a first name in 2020; 147 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.
Yuma’s family of names
Yuma has a related form in Yooma. Yuma has a related form in Yoomah. Yuma has a related form in Yumah.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 5
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 Yuma
- Yuma AsamiJapanese actress and modelborn 1987
- Yuma YamazakiJapanese para-badminton player (born 1988)
- Yuma YamamotoJapanese long-distance runnerborn 2000
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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