Rumi has parallel origins. In Persian, it is the byname of the 13th-century Sufi poet Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi (1207-1273), meaning "the Roman" (referring to Anatolia, then under the Roman/Byzantine cultural sphere). In Japanese (留美) it means "beauty" or "lapis lazuli."
Rumi entered the U.S. top 1000 in 2017 after Beyoncé and Jay-Z named their daughter Rumi. The Sufi poet remains one of the most widely-read poets in the English-speaking world.
Rumi reduces to seven — the number of mystical poetry.