Sumaiya — #5077 US girls' name
572 babies named Sumaiya in U.S. Social Security records since 1991, with the highest year being 2007. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 71% of names given to girls today.
39% of everyone ever named Sumaiya was born in this single decade.
30 babies were named Sumaiya in 2007 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Sumaiya
The Social Security Administration has registered 572 babies named Sumaiya between 1991 and 2024, spanning 34 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sumaiya currently holds the #5077 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2007, when 30 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Sumaiya performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 222 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Sumaiya shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 136 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California. In total, SSA state-level files list Sumaiya in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Sumaiya 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 572 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.
Sumaiya at a glance
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Current rank
Active since
Sumaiya popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1991
- Peak year (2007)
- 30
- Annual births at peak — across 34 years of records
Currently ranks #5077 among girls.
572 total births across 34 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2007 with 30 births in a single year.
Sumaiya by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 222 births that decade — 39% of Sumaiya's all-time total
Sumaiya decade highlights
- Peak decade 222 births
- Runner-up 202 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Sumaiya's strongest decade
222 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 39% of all-time use.
Sumaiya by state
Where Sumaiya concentrates geographically — total births since 1991
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 136 | 23.8% |
| #2 | California | | 6 | 1.0% |
136 of 572 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 2 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- New York 23.8% of nationwide
- California 1.0% of nationwide
Recorded in 2 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 23.8% of all recorded births nationwide — a strong regional concentration 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, 1991–2024 (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.