Rumi is a Japanese girls' name whose meaning depends on the characters used; common choices combine "beauty" with "flow" or "lapis lazuli". Outside Japan the name recalls the 13th-century Persian poet Rumi, whose verses on love are widely read in the United States, and Beyoncé and Jay-Z chose it for their daughter in 2017. Rumi had fewer than five births a year in 2000, stood at number 4961 in 2015 and has shot up to number 1283 in 2025, its highest rank yet.