Sumer
Sumer was given to 7 girls in 2025, #13,033 among girls’ names; 1,527 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,490 Americans named Sumer and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 26 and 44.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sumer by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sumer?
#13,033 among girls’ names, 2025
Sumer fell from #12,874 in 2015 to #13,033 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 4.5 to 4.4 per million.
86 babies in 1977, the peak
Sumer peaked in 1977, when 86 girls were given it, #1,339 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #13,033 | 4.4 |
| 2023 | 5 | #17,327 | 3.1 |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,313 | 4.3 |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,707 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 6 | #16,008 | 3.4 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,874 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 11 | #10,065 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,855 | 5.1 |
| 2012 | 10 | #11,163 | 5.7 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,950 | 12.9 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 13 | #9,324 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,703 | 9.0 |
| 2007 | 34 | #4,461 | 17.7 |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,879 | 12.1 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,851 | 8.1 |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,193 | 13.6 |
| 2003 | 26 | #4,921 | 14.2 |
| 2002 | 44 | #3,234 | 24.5 |
| 2001 | 54 | #2,758 | 30.0 |
| 2000 | 45 | #3,111 | 24.8 |
| 1999 | 40 | #3,238 | 22.6 |
| 1998 | 44 | #2,962 | 24.9 |
| 1997 | 58 | #2,321 | 33.3 |
| 1996 | 50 | #2,549 | 28.5 |
| 1995 | 59 | #2,275 | 33.6 |
| 1994 | 51 | #2,497 | 28.6 |
| 1993 | 38 | #3,099 | 21.0 |
| 1992 | 23 | #4,507 | 12.5 |
| 1991 | 35 | #3,193 | 18.7 |
| 1990 | 35 | #3,214 | 18.4 |
| 1989 | 38 | #2,913 | 20.6 |
| 1988 | 37 | #2,856 | 20.8 |
| 1987 | 49 | #2,229 | 28.2 |
| 1986 | 27 | #3,348 | 15.7 |
| 1985 | 34 | #2,792 | 19.8 |
| 1984 | 41 | #2,377 | 24.3 |
| 1983 | 46 | #2,151 | 27.5 |
| 1982 | 44 | #2,281 | 26.0 |
| 1981 | 34 | #2,711 | 20.4 |
| 1980 | 58 | #1,881 | 34.9 |
| 1979 | 66 | #1,691 | 41.1 |
| 1978 | 65 | #1,650 | 42.4 |
| 1977 | 86 | #1,339 | 56.1 |
| 1976 | 29 | #2,717 | 19.8 |
| 1975 | 22 | #3,243 | 15.1 |
| 1974 | 9 | #6,187 | 6.1 |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,286 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,420 | 6.6 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,435 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sumer a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sumer has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sumer: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sumer, and how old are they?
1,490 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,527 Americans ever recorded as Sumer. The median Sumer alive today is 35 years old; half are between 26 and 44.
The 2020 Census counted 1,355 people named Sumer (1,236 women and girls, 119 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,479 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 338 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 623 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 465 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 59 |
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 Sumer born?
The states with the most babies named Sumer are California, Texas and Florida, with 87% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 131 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 55 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 33 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Alabama | 11 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New York | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Louisiana | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Oklahoma | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
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 Sumer with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Sumer?
Sumer is a less common spelling of Summer: SSA has recorded 1,527 Sumer and 91,575 Summer since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 93,484 babies since 1880, Sumer is the second most given (1.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 1,980 babies (<1%), again the second 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 Sumer
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 Sumer and names like it
- Compare Sumer and SummerBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sSumer peaked in 1977.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sumer since 1910.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Sumer.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Sumer alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.