Entry № 10113 · Japanese origin

Sumire Sumire — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ soo-MEE-reh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Japanese
Meaning
"Violet"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Japanese)

A name that means "violet".

Sumire (菫, スミレ) is the Japanese word for "violet" — the small spring flower.

Sumire is widely used in modern Japan.

Violet. The Japanese spring bloom.

The name in its native script.

Transliteration
Sumire
Pronunciation
/ suːˈmiː.rɛ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sumire stands.

Sumire does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Sumires before her.

Real people
Sumire Matsubara
Japanese model.
born 1990
In fiction
Sumire
Common in Japanese literature.

Names connected to Sumire.

The number behind Sumire.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sumire reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.