Fun Facts About the Name Urmi
- 46 babies named Urmi: U.S. records list 46 babies given the name Urmi from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Urmi Mean?
Urmi is a feminine name meaning 'wave' or 'billow,' from Sanskrit ūrmi (ऊर्मि), a word for a moving wave. In Bengali script the name is written উর্মি. The meaning is literal; poetic images of waves use the same basic word rather than a separate symbolic etymology.
Urmi Name History & Origins
The Sanskrit word ūrmi belongs to the old vocabulary for water and waves and appears in classical Sanskrit poetry. As a given name, Urmi is used chiefly in Bengali-speaking communities in Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal, and it is also found in Assamese and Odia. Its use fits the long-established practice in these languages of forming personal names from Sanskrit words; the Bengali form উর্মি shows the word adapted to Bengali script and pronunciation.
How Popular is the Name Urmi?
Urmi has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2002. Its best rank was #11,065 in 2002.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | #12,718 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2003 | #18,287 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2002 | #11,065 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2001 | #15,259 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2000 | #17,512 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1999 | #14,337 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1998 | #12,375 | 7 | 0.0004% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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How the Name Urmi Shapes Your Personality and Life?
You have talent, charm and luck. You can succeed in art and in any educational occupation. You attract peculiar experiences. Your power and protection lies in spiritual side of life. You are an enthusiastic collector and you will be tenacious in holding onto the things you accumulate. You have a good memory and should make an effort to have a positive attitude. Emergencies may raise your intuitive abilities in order to resolve conflict or situation. You become very creative under the pressure, and have quite original ideas to make the best out of it.
You are very intuitive. You have a reservoir of inspired wisdom combined with inherited analytical ability, which could reward you through expressions of spiritual leadership, business analysis, marketing, artistic visions, and scientific research. Operating on spiritual side of your individuality can bring you to the great heights, and drop you off if you neglect your spiritual identity. You are always looking for an opportunity to investigate the unknown, to use and show your mental abilities, to find the purpose and meaning of life. You want to grow wise and to understand people and things. You need privacy to replenish your energy. You have a unique way of thinking, intuitive, reflective, absorbing.
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