Ruma

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Rima in BD Bangladesh, US United States, SY Syria and 12 more, Римма in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and 4 more, Reema in IN India, SA Saudi Arabia, FR France and 3 more and Rymma in PL Poland.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Ruma is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name1.3K records spelled Ruma2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States

  Also written Rüma

• Hebrew given name1.3K records spelled Ruma7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Israel, India, Yemen, Poland

  Languages: Hebrew, Arabic

  Also written רומה, רומא, Rooma, Roma, Romã

• Portuguese given name542 records spelled Ruma4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Brazil, Spain

  Also written Rumã, Rüma, Rumá

45 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Ruma is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In scn, Rome (a major city, the capital of Italy and the Italian region of Lazio, located on the Tiber River; the ancient capital of the Roman Empire)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In bbc, house, especially the beautifully constructed houses of the wealthy

  as a word·Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

• In Finnish, ugly (displeasing to the eye or ear)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In aia, a house, oblong in shape; a family

  as a word·Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

• In wrp, house; shop; branch of a family

  as a word·Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

• In got, romanization of 𐍂𐌿𐌼𐌰

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 98 years between 1914–2016. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Aseda Khatun Rumab. 1978BDbadminton player

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 220 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ruma?

We estimate roughly 14 thousand people bear Ruma (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.

In which country does Ruma have the most bearers?

Ruma is most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is most often spelled rima.

How common is Ruma compared with other names?

In Bangladesh, Ruma is the 14th most common given name of 28,624 given names recorded there.

Is Ruma a male or female name?

Ruma is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Ruma mean?

Recorded meaning: From Proto-Germanic *Rūmō.