Summer
Summer was given to 1,973 girls in 2025, #152 among girls’ names; 91,575 Americans have been recorded with it since 1918 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 89,800 Americans named Summer and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 13 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Summer by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Summer mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Summer is “a female given name from English of modern usage, from summer, the name of the season, often given to girls born in summer.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Summer?
#152 among girls’ names, 2025
Summer rose from #193 in 2015 to #152 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.95 to 1.2 per 1,000.
2,558 babies in 1998, the peak
Summer peaked in 1998, when 2,558 girls were given it, #131 among girls’ names. The 1,973 births of 2025 are 77% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,973 | #152 | 1.2 |
| 2024 | 2,077 | #142 | 1.3 |
| 2023 | 1,971 | #141 | 1.2 |
| 2022 | 1,876 | #152 | 1.1 |
| 2021 | 1,961 | #141 | 1.2 |
| 2020 | 1,815 | #151 | 1.1 |
| 2019 | 1,642 | #178 | 1.0 |
| 2018 | 1,553 | #199 | 0.91 |
| 2017 | 1,411 | #219 | 0.82 |
| 2016 | 1,606 | #202 | 0.91 |
Every recorded year (75)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,692 | #193 | 0.95 |
| 2014 | 1,781 | #183 | 1.0 |
| 2013 | 1,734 | #186 | 1.0 |
| 2012 | 1,781 | #175 | 1.0 |
| 2011 | 1,817 | #173 | 1.0 |
| 2010 | 1,888 | #163 | 1.1 |
| 2009 | 1,903 | #174 | 1.0 |
| 2008 | 1,959 | #169 | 1.0 |
| 2007 | 2,252 | #159 | 1.2 |
| 2006 | 2,261 | #152 | 1.2 |
| 2005 | 2,412 | #140 | 1.3 |
| 2004 | 2,333 | #140 | 1.3 |
| 2003 | 2,212 | #153 | 1.2 |
| 2002 | 2,213 | #151 | 1.2 |
| 2001 | 2,314 | #142 | 1.3 |
| 2000 | 2,339 | #145 | 1.3 |
| 1999 | 2,337 | #136 | 1.3 |
| 1998 | 2,558 | #131 | 1.4 |
| 1997 | 2,480 | #131 | 1.4 |
| 1996 | 2,345 | #137 | 1.3 |
| 1995 | 2,124 | #153 | 1.2 |
| 1994 | 2,239 | #141 | 1.3 |
| 1993 | 1,617 | #180 | 0.89 |
| 1992 | 1,102 | #254 | 0.60 |
| 1991 | 984 | #286 | 0.52 |
| 1990 | 1,021 | #271 | 0.54 |
| 1989 | 910 | #288 | 0.49 |
| 1988 | 986 | #258 | 0.55 |
| 1987 | 1,042 | #247 | 0.60 |
| 1986 | 1,127 | #230 | 0.66 |
| 1985 | 1,166 | #226 | 0.68 |
| 1984 | 1,212 | #215 | 0.72 |
| 1983 | 1,166 | #216 | 0.70 |
| 1982 | 1,262 | #211 | 0.75 |
| 1981 | 1,544 | #179 | 0.93 |
| 1980 | 1,754 | #159 | 1.1 |
| 1979 | 1,861 | #150 | 1.2 |
| 1978 | 1,917 | #143 | 1.3 |
| 1977 | 2,447 | #119 | 1.6 |
| 1976 | 1,072 | #227 | 0.73 |
| 1975 | 784 | #299 | 0.54 |
| 1974 | 314 | #536 | 0.21 |
| 1973 | 184 | #753 | 0.13 |
| 1972 | 197 | #725 | 0.13 |
| 1971 | 156 | #866 | 0.09 |
| 1970 | 99 | #1,176 | 0.06 |
| 1969 | 79 | #1,266 | 0.05 |
| 1968 | 48 | #1,702 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 45 | #1,726 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 33 | #2,052 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 29 | #2,241 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 33 | #2,103 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 36 | #1,977 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 19 | #2,903 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 35 | #1,996 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 27 | #2,291 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 22 | #2,509 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 17 | #2,952 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 14 | #3,287 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 20 | #2,614 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 22 | #2,402 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 16 | #2,878 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 20 | #2,422 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 18 | #2,570 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,956 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Summer a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Summer has been given almost only to girls: 254 boys in 76 years of records.
Girls and boys named Summer: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Summer, and how old are they?
89,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 91,575 Americans ever recorded as Summer. The median Summer alive today is 24 years old; half are between 13 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 70,693 people named Summer (70,481 women and girls, 212 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 79,068 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 251 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 10,500 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 21,300 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 34,700 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 23,000 |
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 Summer born?
The states with the most babies named Summer are California, Florida and Texas, with 30% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 255 | #115 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 175 | #92 | 1.3× |
| Texas | 162 | #212 | 0.9× |
| New York | 120 | #136 | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 74 | #136 | 1.4× |
| New Jersey | 73 | #99 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 72 | #138 | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 64 | #156 | 0.6× |
| Virginia | 58 | #130 | 1.1× |
| Massachusetts | 55 | #100 | 0.5× |
Where Summer is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Summer is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1918 it was given 1.6 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 Summer 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 93,484 babies since 1880, Summer is the most given (98% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,973 of their 1,980 babies (100%), again the 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 Summer
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 Summer and names like it
- Compare Summer and SumerBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sSummer peaked in 1998.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Summer since 1910.
- English namesWiktionary’s origin for Summer: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Summer.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Summer alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.