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Lumi

/LOO-mee/ FeminineFinnish

Meaning

Lumi is a feminine name of Finnish origin meaning “snow”.

Lumi is the Finnish word for snow, a small luminous name that Finland itself only embraced for daughters in recent decades. Its happy accident is that it sounds like the Latin lumen, light, so English speakers hear brightness in a name that literally means snowfall.

Ranked among Finland's most popular girls' names in the 2010s and 2020s.

At a glance

Origin
Finnish
Gender
Feminine
Pronounced
/LOO-mee/
Themes
SnowLight

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Questions

  • Lumi is a feminine name of Finnish origin meaning “snow”. Lumi is the Finnish word for snow, a small luminous name that Finland itself only embraced for daughters in recent decades.

  • Lumi is traditionally a feminine (girl) name. Ranked among Finland's most popular girls' names in the 2010s and 2020s.

  • The name Lumi comes from Finnish. Lumi is the Finnish word for snow, a small luminous name that Finland itself only embraced for daughters in recent decades. Its happy accident is that it sounds like the Latin lumen, light, so English speakers hear brightness in a name that literally means snowfall.

  • Lumi is pronounced LOO-mee.

More names that mean snow

Names that share this meaning.

  1. Edur MasculineBasque“snow”
  2. Edurne FeminineBasque“snow”
  3. Eira FeminineWelsh“snow”
  4. Eirwen FeminineWelsh“white as snow”
  5. Fannar MasculineIcelandic“snowdrift”
  6. Frost MasculineEnglish“frozen dew”