Summer — #142 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Summer

The Social Security Administration has registered 89,323 babies named Summer between 1949 and 2024, spanning 76 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Summer currently holds the #142 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1998, when 2,558 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Summer performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 22,195 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Summer shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 11,054 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Summer in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Summer in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 89,323 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.