Sumayyah
Sumayyah was given to 35 girls in 2025, #4,157 among girls’ names; 955 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sumayyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sumayyah?
#4,157 among girls’ names, 2025
Sumayyah rose from #4,219 in 2015 to #4,157 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 19.6 to 21.8 per million.
45 babies in 2020, the peak
Sumayyah peaked in 2020, when 45 girls were given it, #3,442 among girls’ names. The 35 births of 2025 are 78% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #4,157 | 21.8 |
| 2024 | 35 | #4,202 | 21.6 |
| 2023 | 38 | #3,974 | 23.7 |
| 2022 | 40 | #3,821 | 24.4 |
| 2021 | 34 | #4,226 | 20.7 |
| 2020 | 45 | #3,442 | 27.8 |
| 2019 | 36 | #4,065 | 21.4 |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,343 | 19.4 |
| 2017 | 44 | #3,546 | 25.5 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,271 | 14.7 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 35 | #4,219 | 19.6 |
| 2014 | 41 | #3,771 | 23.0 |
| 2013 | 34 | #4,323 | 19.4 |
| 2012 | 25 | #5,538 | 14.2 |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,793 | 17.1 |
| 2010 | 27 | #5,224 | 15.2 |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,363 | 14.7 |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,750 | 16.9 |
| 2007 | 25 | #5,680 | 13.0 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,322 | 11.0 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,781 | 9.7 |
| 2004 | 24 | #5,358 | 13.1 |
| 2003 | 20 | #6,019 | 10.9 |
| 2002 | 24 | #5,065 | 13.4 |
| 2001 | 29 | #4,301 | 16.1 |
| 2000 | 31 | #4,062 | 17.1 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,185 | 11.8 |
| 1998 | 17 | #6,033 | 9.6 |
| 1997 | 16 | #6,129 | 9.2 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,688 | 8.0 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,402 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,545 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,428 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 6 | #13,149 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 5 | #15,137 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 9 | #9,152 | 4.7 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,950 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,620 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,951 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 6 | #9,100 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sumayyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sumayyah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sumayyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sumayyah, and how old are they?
An estimated 946 Americans named Sumayyah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 646 people named Sumayyah (643 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 733 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.
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 Sumayyah born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5 | #3,479 | 0.2× |
| Texas | 5 | #3,737 | 0.1× |
Where Sumayyah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sumayyah is most over-represented in Pennsylvania: since 1976 it was given 3.0 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 Sumayyah 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 4,998 babies since 1880, Sumayyah is the second most given (19% of them). In 2025 it was given to 35 of their 199 babies (18%), the third most given that year.
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 Sumayyah
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 Sumayyah and names like it
- Compare Sumayyah and SumayaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSumayyah peaked in 2020.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sumayyah since 1910.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Sumayyah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Sumayyah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.