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The first name 
Fumi

Fumi is a female first name.

Fumi – a very rare name!

Recently, the name Fumi has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Fumi. That means that a girl named Fumi is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Fumi.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Fumi

Fumi -
at home in California and Washington

If you ever wanted to meet a girl or a woman named Fumi, you have limited options – because girls with this beautiful name are currently living in California and Washington. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if tehre are at least five people with that name living there – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few women and girls called Fumi living in one state or another (if your name is Fumi and you live outside of California and Washington, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know, so we can refine our statistics even further). Which means – if you put this number in relation to the population of the USA – only one in 191,191 girls and women would turn around if you called out the name Fumi. So, if your name is Fumi it is very likely that you won’t need a nickname in your peer group, because having the name Fumi already makes you special.

Fumi has 4 letters 
and begins with an F

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter F is quite rare as a first letter for girls' names: only 1.2% of all common girls' names in the US begin with an F. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.

With four letters, the name Fumi is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that if 1.2% of all girls' names begin with an F, this initial letter is significantly less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are girls' names with F that are quite popular, the most common at present is Frances.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Fumi

If your name is Fumi and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Fumi

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Fumi, you can simply say:

Fox

Unicorn

Mouse

Igloo

This is how the name Fumi is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Fumi in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Fumi

Fumi

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Fumi

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Fumi is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

F
U
M
I

Have you ever waved the name Fumi

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

F
U
M
I

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Fumi sounds like this: