Sumner — #6448 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Sumner

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,427 babies named Sumner between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Sumner currently holds the #6448 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1920, when 65 babies received it in a single year. Sumner is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 212 additional births since 1979.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Sumner performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 570 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Sumner shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Massachusetts, which accounts for 640 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Maine and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Sumner in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Sumner 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 2,427 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.