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Fumie
How to Pronounce Fumie
Pronounced foo-MEE-eh /fuˈmi.e/Medium
Meaning: Fumie is a Japanese feminine name. The element fumi is often written with a character meaning 'writing, letters, literature', and -e can mean 'blessing', 'inlet', or 'branch'; so it often reads as something like 'literary blessing', with the exact sense depending on the kanji.Low
Popularity in the U.S. · SSA data
U.S. births per year (Social Security Administration, 1880–present). Pink marker = peak year.
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History & Origin
Fumie is a Japanese feminine name in which fumi is often written with a character for 'writing' or 'literature', closed by -e, an ending suggesting 'blessing' or 'branch' - so a sense such as 'literary blessing', depending on the kanji. It appears in United States birth records among Issei and Nisei families in the early twentieth century, reached its small high around 1920, and its recorded use ran mainly into the early nineteen-thirties, always rare.
A girl named Fumie belonged to the early Japanese-American community, whose history includes the wartime internment years. The name faded among later American-born generations but remains an authentic, graceful Japanese name of its time.
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What does the name Fumie mean?
It is a Japanese feminine name in which fumi often means 'writing, letters' and -e 'blessing', so about 'literary blessing'; the exact sense depends on the kanji.
How do you pronounce Fumie?
It's said foo-MEE-eh /fuˈmi.e/, three syllables, stress on the middle.
Is Fumie a boy or girl name?
Fumie is used as a girl's name.
How popular is Fumie?
It was always very rare in the United States, a Japanese heritage name given to only a couple dozen girls a year around the nineteen-tens.