Girls' name · since 1990
Sumayya
422 babies named Sumayya in U.S. Social Security records since 1990, with the highest year being 2025. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #13,102 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #3,424 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 422
- born since 1990
- 2020s
- peak decade
Yes -- Sumayya is the #3424 most popular girls' name in the U.S. today, with 422 recorded since 1990.
Sumayya has 422 recorded births among girls since 1990, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #3424 as of the latest data, more common than 80% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1990 to 2025.
- #13,102 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #3,424 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 422 born since 1990
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Sumayya ranks #13,102 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #3,424 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 422 born since 1990, peaking in the 2020s.
- #13,102 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #3,424 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 422
- born since 1990
- 2020s
- peak decade
Sumayya's 422 recorded births place it above 81.88% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
The state file records this name in 4 jurisdictions, led by New York.
How Sumayya compares
422 Top 48% higher than 52% of 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Sumayya's all-time total is 12% above the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Sumayya | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 422 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 45 | 21 | 19,840 |
Sumayya's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Sumayya's full recorded timeline at 2010, 70% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 30% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 1993, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2025 peak of 45 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Sumayya popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1990–2025
- Peak year (2025)
- 45
- Annual births at peak, across 36 years of records
Sumayya by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (176 births, 42% of the file).
2020s was Sumayya's strongest decade.
176 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 42% of all-time use.
Sumayya births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1990s 39
1990s
39 births
- 2000s
2000s
87 births
- 2010s
2010s
120 births
- 2020s
2020s
176 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 176 births (42% of all-time use).
Sumayya by state
Where Sumayya concentrates geographically, total births since 1990
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 49 | 11.6% |
| #2 | Pennsylvania | | 24 | 5.7% |
| #3 | Illinois | | 10 | 2.4% |
| #4 | California | | 5 | 1.2% |
49 of 422 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 4 reporting states.
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- New York records the most Sumayyas (49 births) -- see the full state breakdown if geography matters to your decision. New York names
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Nationwide names with similar peak year or record span
Two nationwide peer axes for Sumayya: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2025)
Similar record span (~35 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1990–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Sumayya draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.