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Sommer

#4,971 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Summer

Sommer has been given to 6,080 babies in the U.S. since 1966. In 2025 it ranked #4,971 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1977, with 464 recorded.

Babies named Sommer, 2025

1 in 123,000

Sommer over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sommer: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Summer

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sommer means

Sommer is a variant of Summer.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Sommer → Summer. The family’s meaning is “Summer season”, recorded in the naming reference for Summer.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Summer.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,080 girls were recorded with the name Sommer between 1966 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 464 in 1977; its best national rank was #441 in 1977.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,740 in 2020 to #4,971 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,289 in 2015 to #4,971 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Sommer?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 123,000
27 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 59,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,971
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
85,108 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sommer sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 85,108 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sommer. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sommers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sommer was born before 1990 — so the typical Sommer is around 35 today.

Median birth year
1990
About 35 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
25.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
23.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
6,080
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Choose a decade

1980s — 25.5% of all recorded uses (1,549).

Is Sommer rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−320
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−231
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−682
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.79×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
5.8%
Peak was 1977 (464)
Years since peak
48
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#441
1977

Spellings of Sommer

Sommer is not the most common spelling — Summer is, with 88.4% against Sommer's 5.9%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Sommer is used

Across 1910–2025, Sommer was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 38,538 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 20,000
  2. 2Hawaii1 in 20,000
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 20,000
  4. 4South Carolina1 in 20,000
  5. 5Alabama1 in 25,000
  6. 6California1 in 25,000
  7. 7Michigan1 in 25,000
  8. 8Ohio1 in 25,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Sommer has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sommer around the world

Where Sommer ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2023
    #4,710
    in 2023
  • Scotland
    2001–2010
    #509
    in 2010
  • Northern Ireland
    2000–2003
    #331
    in 2003
  • Ireland
    2007–2019
    #716
    in 2019
  • Canada
    1993–2012
    #3,249
    in 2012
  • South Australia
    1979–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Sommer

People whose public names include Sommer, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Sommer by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,971
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 231
Best rank ever
#441
1977
Peak year
1977
464 that year
First recorded
1966
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,080
Count in 2025
27

Names similar to Sommer

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

SomerPalmerSomayaSumerSummerEmmerElmerWilmerSomaraSomaSomyaSomalyVelmerSomiSomoneSomiyaSomaliaHomerAlmerSommarDreamerSomiaSomaiyaSomiyah

Names with a curve like Sommer

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Sommer, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Sommer

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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