Summit
Summit is given to both girls and boys: 41 girls and 114 boys were given it in 2025 (#3,700 among girls’ names and #1,526 among boys’, #2,640 among all names counting both); 1,271 Americans have been recorded with it since 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,260 Americans named Summit and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 10.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Summit by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Summit?
#1,526 among boys’ names, 2025
Summit rose from #2,856 in 2015 to #1,526 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 21.9 to 66.7 per million.
155 babies in 2025, the peak
Summit peaked in 2025, when 155 babies were given it (114 boys, #1,526 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 89 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 41 | #3,700 | 114 | #1,526 |
| 2024 | 20 | #6,133 | 89 | #1,831 |
| 2023 | 26 | #5,107 | 82 | #1,926 |
| 2022 | 31 | #4,568 | 91 | #1,801 |
| 2021 | 26 | #5,073 | 83 | #1,866 |
| 2020 | 29 | #4,633 | 53 | #2,460 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,546 | 74 | #1,996 |
| 2018 | 12 | #9,090 | 69 | #2,078 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,283 | 57 | #2,309 |
| 2016 | 11 | #10,031 | 43 | #2,832 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10 | #10,772 | 42 | #2,856 |
| 2014 | under 5 | 31 | #3,518 | |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,947 | 25 | #4,043 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,611 | 19 | #5,010 |
| 2011 | under 5 | 24 | #4,197 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 19 | #5,012 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 15 | #6,042 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 11 | #7,629 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 20 | #4,775 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 11 | #7,348 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 12 | #6,571 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 8 | #8,806 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 7 | #9,460 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 11 | #6,462 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 8 | #8,206 | |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,594 | 6 | #9,743 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Summit a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,271 Americans recorded as Summit, 19% are girls and 81% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Summit: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Summit, and how old are they?
1,260 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,271 Americans ever recorded as Summit. The median Summit alive today is 6 years old; half are between 3 and 10.
The 2020 Census counted 676 people named Summit (116 women and girls, 560 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 602 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 180 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,080 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,762 babies since 1880, Summit is the most given (72% of them). In 2025 it was given to 155 of their 155 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 Summit
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 Summit and names like it
- Compare Summit and SumitBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSummit peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Summit since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Summit.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Summit alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.