Sumaya
Sumaya was given to 76 girls in 2025, #2,383 among girls’ names; 2,142 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,120 Americans named Sumaya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 8 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sumaya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Sumaya mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Sumaya is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Sumaya?
#2,383 among girls’ names, 2025
Sumaya fell from #1,934 in 2015 to #2,383 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 58.8 to 47.3 per million.
109 babies in 2016, the peak
Sumaya peaked in 2016, when 109 girls were given it, #1,883 among girls’ names. The 76 births of 2025 are 70% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 76 | #2,383 | 47.3 |
| 2024 | 66 | #2,656 | 40.7 |
| 2023 | 75 | #2,413 | 46.7 |
| 2022 | 62 | #2,785 | 37.8 |
| 2021 | 59 | #2,886 | 36.0 |
| 2020 | 75 | #2,373 | 46.4 |
| 2019 | 88 | #2,139 | 52.4 |
| 2018 | 85 | #2,205 | 50.0 |
| 2017 | 86 | #2,218 | 49.8 |
| 2016 | 109 | #1,883 | 61.5 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 105 | #1,934 | 58.8 |
| 2014 | 93 | #2,092 | 52.1 |
| 2013 | 86 | #2,185 | 49.0 |
| 2012 | 94 | #2,063 | 53.4 |
| 2011 | 88 | #2,171 | 50.0 |
| 2010 | 89 | #2,201 | 50.1 |
| 2009 | 85 | #2,313 | 46.3 |
| 2008 | 76 | #2,508 | 40.2 |
| 2007 | 94 | #2,144 | 48.9 |
| 2006 | 74 | #2,508 | 38.9 |
| 2005 | 65 | #2,628 | 35.2 |
| 2004 | 58 | #2,802 | 31.6 |
| 2003 | 52 | #2,948 | 28.5 |
| 2002 | 46 | #3,135 | 25.6 |
| 2001 | 47 | #3,039 | 26.1 |
| 2000 | 34 | #3,796 | 18.7 |
| 1999 | 35 | #3,555 | 19.7 |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,475 | 14.1 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,386 | 10.9 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,255 | 10.8 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,643 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,421 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,979 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,352 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,936 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,757 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 5 | #14,274 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 7 | #10,251 | 3.9 |
| 1984 | 8 | #8,064 | 4.8 |
| 1981 | 6 | #10,235 | 3.6 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,523 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sumaya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sumaya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sumaya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sumaya, and how old are they?
2,120 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,142 Americans ever recorded as Sumaya. The median Sumaya alive today is 14 years old; half are between 8 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 2,223 people named Sumaya (2,214 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,734 born in the U.S. The Census count is 28% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 89 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 971 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,060 |
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 Sumaya born?
The states with the most babies named Sumaya are Minnesota, New York and Washington, with 76% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Minnesota and Washington are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 13 | #420 | 10.8× |
| New York | 13 | #1,154 | 1.5× |
| Washington | 6 | #1,030 | 2.0× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,674 | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,613 | 0.3× |
Where Sumaya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sumaya is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1969 it was given 10.8 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 Sumaya 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 5,358 babies since 1880, Sumaya is the most given (40% of them). In 2025 it was given to 76 of their 209 babies (36%), 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 Sumaya
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 Sumaya and names like it
- Compare Sumaya and SumayyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sSumaya peaked in 2016.
- Minnesota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sumaya since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Sumaya.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Sumaya alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.