Summit — #1845 US boys' name
909 babies named Summit in U.S. Social Security records since 1999, with the highest year being 2022. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 87% of names given to boys today.
44% of everyone ever named Summit was born in this single decade.
91 babies were named Summit in 2022 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Summit
The Social Security Administration has registered 909 babies named Summit between 1999 and 2024, spanning 26 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Summit currently holds the #1845 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 91 babies received it in a single year. Summit is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 206 additional births since 1999.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Summit performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 403 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Summit shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 41 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Utah and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Summit in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Summit 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 909 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.
Summit at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Summit popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1999
- Peak year (2022)
- 91
- Annual births at peak — across 26 years of records
Currently ranks #1845 among boys.
909 total births across 26 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2022 with 91 births in a single year.
Summit popularity over time — girls
206 total births recorded since 1999 (Summit as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Summit accounts for 18% of total recorded use across both genders.
Summit by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 403 births that decade — 44% of Summit's all-time total
Summit decade highlights
- Peak decade 403 births
- Runner-up 397 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Summit's strongest decade
403 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 44% of all-time use.
Summit by state
Where Summit concentrates geographically — total births since 1999
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 41 | 4.5% |
| #2 | Utah | | 36 | 4.0% |
| #3 | California | | 22 | 2.4% |
| #4 | Colorado | | 21 | 2.3% |
| #5 | Ohio | | 12 | 1.3% |
| #6 | Minnesota | | 5 | 0.6% |
| #7 | Oregon | | 5 | 0.6% |
41 of 909 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 7 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Texas 4.5% of nationwide
- Utah 4.0% of nationwide
- California 2.4% of nationwide
- Colorado 2.3% of nationwide
- Ohio 1.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 7 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 4.5% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1999–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.