Sumeya
Sumeya was given to 10 girls in 2025, #10,022 among girls’ names; 272 Americans have been recorded with it since 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sumeya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sumeya?
#10,022 among girls’ names, 2025
Sumeya fell from #8,381 in 2015 to #10,022 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 7.8 to 6.2 per million.
18 babies in 2017, the peak
Sumeya peaked in 2017, when 18 girls were given it, #6,770 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 56% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #10,022 | 6.2 |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,228 | 6.2 |
| 2021 | 10 | #10,213 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 8 | #12,014 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 12 | #9,044 | 7.1 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,717 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,770 | 10.4 |
| 2016 | 11 | #10,030 | 6.2 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,381 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 15 | #8,009 | 8.4 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 15 | #8,103 | 8.5 |
| 2012 | 9 | #12,097 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,383 | 9.7 |
| 2010 | 15 | #8,238 | 8.4 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,588 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,665 | 4.2 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,732 | 5.7 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,662 | 7.4 |
| 2005 | 11 | #10,034 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,673 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,772 | 7.8 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,921 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,635 | 5.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sumeya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sumeya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 23 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sumeya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sumeya, and how old are they?
An estimated 270 Americans named Sumeya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 9 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 342 people named Sumeya (342 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 234 born in the U.S. The Census count is 46% 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Sumeya?
Sumeya is a less common spelling of Sumaya: SSA has recorded 272 Sumeya and 2,142 Sumaya since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 4,204 babies since 1880, Sumeya is the fifth most given (6.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 169 babies (5.9%), again the fifth 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 Sumeya
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 Sumeya and names like it
- Compare Sumeya and SumayaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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