Sumaira — girls' name
59 babies named Sumaira in U.S. Social Security records since 1982, with the highest year being 2015. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
31% of everyone ever named Sumaira was born in this single decade.
11 babies were named Sumaira in 2015 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Sumaira
The Social Security Administration has registered 59 babies named Sumaira between 1982 and 2023, spanning 42 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sumaira currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2015, when 11 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Sumaira performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 18 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Sumaira shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Sumaira in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Sumaira in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 59 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Sumaira at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Sumaira popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1982
- Peak year (2015)
- 11
- Annual births at peak — across 42 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
59 total births across 42 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2015 with 11 births in a single year.
Sumaira by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 18 births that decade — 31% of Sumaira's all-time total
Sumaira decade highlights
- Peak decade 18 births
- Runner-up 15 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Sumaira's strongest decade
18 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 31% of all-time use.
Sumaira by state
Where Sumaira concentrates geographically — total births since 1982
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 6 | 10.2% |
6 of 59 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 10.2% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 10.2% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1982–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.