Sommer
Sommer was given to 27 girls in 2025, #4,971 among girls’ names; 6,080 Americans have been recorded with it since 1966 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,910 Americans named Sommer and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 26 and 46.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sommer by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sommer?
#4,971 among girls’ names, 2025
Sommer fell from #4,289 in 2015 to #4,971 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 19.0 to 16.8 per million.
464 babies in 1977, the peak
Sommer peaked in 1977, when 464 girls were given it, #441 among girls’ names. The 27 births of 2025 are 6% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 | #4,971 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 30 | #4,651 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 31 | #4,547 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 39 | #3,882 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 45 | #3,484 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 28 | #4,740 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 31 | #4,529 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 42 | #3,663 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,500 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,553 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 34 | #4,289 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 38 | #3,990 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 35 | #4,231 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 45 | #3,576 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 42 | #3,710 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 56 | #3,041 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 48 | #3,452 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 72 | #2,607 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 85 | #2,286 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 93 | #2,106 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 112 | #1,764 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 107 | #1,792 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 94 | #1,945 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 115 | #1,621 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 159 | #1,247 | 0.09 |
| 2000 | 153 | #1,273 | 0.08 |
| 1999 | 160 | #1,201 | 0.09 |
| 1998 | 178 | #1,090 | 0.10 |
| 1997 | 174 | #1,084 | 0.10 |
| 1996 | 162 | #1,121 | 0.09 |
| 1995 | 210 | #901 | 0.12 |
| 1994 | 182 | #1,020 | 0.10 |
| 1993 | 143 | #1,217 | 0.08 |
| 1992 | 78 | #1,839 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 91 | #1,648 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 88 | #1,682 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 105 | #1,419 | 0.06 |
| 1988 | 101 | #1,397 | 0.06 |
| 1987 | 119 | #1,214 | 0.07 |
| 1986 | 106 | #1,280 | 0.06 |
| 1985 | 145 | #1,039 | 0.08 |
| 1984 | 146 | #996 | 0.09 |
| 1983 | 139 | #1,017 | 0.08 |
| 1982 | 183 | #852 | 0.11 |
| 1981 | 224 | #739 | 0.13 |
| 1980 | 281 | #654 | 0.17 |
| 1979 | 318 | #574 | 0.20 |
| 1978 | 346 | #530 | 0.23 |
| 1977 | 464 | #441 | 0.30 |
| 1976 | 161 | #852 | 0.11 |
| 1975 | 70 | #1,477 | 0.05 |
| 1974 | 21 | #3,299 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 25 | #2,818 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,495 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 16 | #3,922 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 18 | #3,554 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,159 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,462 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sommer a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sommer has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 58 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sommer: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sommer, and how old are they?
5,910 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 6,080 Americans ever recorded as Sommer. The median Sommer alive today is 36 years old; half are between 26 and 46.
The 2020 Census counted 5,081 people named Sommer (5,059 women and girls, 22 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,760 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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 | 1,660 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,160 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,670 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 417 |
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 Sommer born?
The states with the most babies named Sommer are California, Texas and Florida, with 35% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 617 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 411 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 291 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 285 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 259 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 159 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 155 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 139 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 137 | #1,756 | 0.8× |
| Louisiana | 134 | not ranked | 1.2× |
Where Sommer is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sommer is most over-represented in South Carolina: since 1966 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Sommer 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, Sommer is the most given (73% of them). In 2025 it was given to 27 of their 32 babies (84%), again the 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 Sommer
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 Sommer and names like it
- Compare Sommer and SomerBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sSommer peaked in 1977.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sommer since 1910.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Sommer.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Sommer alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.