Somer
Somer was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,947 among girls’ names; 2,244 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,180 Americans named Somer and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 28 and 46.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Somer by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Somer?
#16,947 among girls’ names, 2025
Somer fell from #10,763 in 2015 to #16,947 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 5.6 to 3.1 per million.
152 babies in 1978, the peak
Somer peaked in 1978, when 152 girls were given it, #935 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,947 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 7 | #13,296 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 8 | #12,047 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 6 | #15,079 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,878 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,620 | 4.2 |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,686 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,742 | 4.5 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,763 | 5.6 |
| 2014 | 7 | #14,369 | 3.9 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 11 | #10,160 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 10 | #11,150 | 5.7 |
| 2011 | 13 | #9,075 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 38 | #4,016 | 21.4 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,826 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 31 | #4,860 | 16.4 |
| 2007 | 30 | #4,927 | 15.6 |
| 2006 | 25 | #5,529 | 13.1 |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,969 | 11.4 |
| 2004 | 36 | #3,974 | 19.6 |
| 2003 | 40 | #3,578 | 21.9 |
| 2002 | 44 | #3,233 | 24.5 |
| 2001 | 56 | #2,689 | 31.1 |
| 2000 | 41 | #3,324 | 22.6 |
| 1999 | 55 | #2,599 | 31.0 |
| 1998 | 68 | #2,139 | 38.5 |
| 1997 | 65 | #2,153 | 37.3 |
| 1996 | 73 | #1,959 | 41.6 |
| 1995 | 70 | #1,975 | 39.8 |
| 1994 | 62 | #2,180 | 34.7 |
| 1993 | 52 | #2,441 | 28.7 |
| 1992 | 43 | #2,816 | 23.3 |
| 1991 | 28 | #3,794 | 14.9 |
| 1990 | 40 | #2,886 | 21.1 |
| 1989 | 37 | #2,973 | 20.1 |
| 1988 | 46 | #2,403 | 25.8 |
| 1987 | 63 | #1,856 | 36.2 |
| 1986 | 53 | #2,049 | 30.9 |
| 1985 | 59 | #1,899 | 34.3 |
| 1984 | 66 | #1,679 | 39.2 |
| 1983 | 73 | #1,551 | 43.7 |
| 1982 | 87 | #1,414 | 51.4 |
| 1981 | 129 | #1,086 | 77.3 |
| 1980 | 134 | #1,063 | 80.7 |
| 1979 | 114 | #1,166 | 71.0 |
| 1978 | 152 | #935 | 99.2 |
| 1977 | 105 | #1,181 | 68.5 |
| 1976 | 48 | #1,909 | 32.8 |
| 1975 | 26 | #2,872 | 17.8 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,711 | 6.8 |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,270 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Somer a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Somer has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Somer: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Somer, and how old are they?
2,180 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 2,244 Americans ever recorded as Somer. The median Somer alive today is 38 years old; half are between 28 and 46.
The 2020 Census counted 1,941 people named Somer (1,896 women and girls, 45 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,165 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 566 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 952 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 580 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 80 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Somer born?
The states with the most babies named Somer are California, Texas and Ohio, with 50% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 153 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Texas | 106 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 62 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 52 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 47 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Alabama | 44 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Michigan | 26 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Louisiana | 25 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Oklahoma | 19 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 18 | not ranked | 0.2× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Somer with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 8,324 babies since 1880, Somer is the second most given (27% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 32 babies (16%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Somer
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Somer and names like it
- Compare Somer and SommerBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sSomer peaked in 1978.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Somer since 1910.
- The top names of 1978The year the most babies were named Somer.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Somer alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.